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. Phil Robertson:

   Australia is basically paying blood money to a much poorer, less developed state with a shoddy record of refugee protection to take people that Canberra doesn't want, when they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not.

2. Jeff Kasky:

   Politicians from EITHER SIDE who accept dirty NRA blood [money] will pay the price.

3. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown:

   We want to interdict how it gets into the wrong hands and that leads us right to straw purchasers. People who make blood money off of getting guns into the hands of felons, violent people, who couldn't otherwise get that gun in their hands.

4. Michael Eisner:

   Those earrings were bought with blood money and given to her by a murderer, she has no business wearing them.

5. 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.