Synonyms for blood money
blood mon·ey

Princeton's WordNet

1. blood moneynoun

   compensation paid to the family of a murdered person

2. blood moneynoun

   a reward for information about a murderer

3. blood moneynoun

   paid to a hired murderer

Matched Categories

1. • Compensation
   • Payment
   • Reward

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1. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown:

   The penalties in the federal system need to be much more conveyed to people to discourage this idea that this is a harmless, mostly clerical administrative violation of the federal system, it is blood money. You are getting the guns... to someone that will harm someone.

2. Jeff Kasky:

   The NRA has acted like a political party in this country for TOO LONG, politicians from EITHER SIDE who accept dirty NRA blood [money] will pay the price.

3. Sheba Maree:

   The financial settlement is barely nudging any kind of justice, i'd rather have my child... nothing will ever, ever, ever, ever take the place of my child. To me, this is blood money, and I will not stop until the people involved with her death are held responsible.

4. Ziba Mir-Hosseini:

   Once they accept that men and women are equal... in terms of blood money when there is a car accident, that means they have accepted the principle, so that can set a precedent, blood money.

5. Cheryl Juaire:

   They cant settle, that would be a huge disservice to the tens of thousands of families here in the United States who buried a child. Thats blood money from our children.