blood money

noun

1. a fee paid to a hired murderer.
2. compensation paid to the next of kin of a slain person.
3. money obtained ruthlessly and at a cost of suffering to others.
4. money paid to an informer in order to cause somebody to be arrested, convicted, or especially executed.

blood money

noun

1. compensation paid to the relatives of a murdered person
2. money paid to a hired murderer
3. a reward for information about a criminal, esp a murderer

Example Sentences

To me, this is blood money, and I will not stop until the people involved with her death are held responsible.

From Washington Blade

They have the right to demand either execution or “blood money,” a hefty ransom that spares the life of the accused.

From The Daily Beast

As he handed out blood money, Weston writes about not having the answer then—or now.

From The Daily Beast

The mother was adamant: she would not accept blood money for the death of her child.

From The Daily Beast

And I love the juxtaposition of the tenderness and the gentleness with his daughter and showing her this blood money.

From The Daily Beast

A trailer for yet another anti-Romney film, called “Blood Money.”

From The Daily Beast

"I have it here," said the boss, and he took the blood-money bank-roll from his pocket and removed the rubber band.

From Project Gutenberg

I think he was glad as it was blood money in a way (if you can call a moustache blood) that it should go back to Maitland.

From Project Gutenberg

Can you not see that, in one sense, in a sort of way, it is almost like blood-money?

From Project Gutenberg

What's your percentage of the blood-money, Mr. Harrington Surtaine?

From Project Gutenberg

They could not sustain themselves a moment but for the loans made to them by these blood-money loan-mongers.

From Project Gutenberg