Crossword clues for kidnapping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
kidnapping \kidnapping\ n. the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment.
Wiktionary
alt. (present participle of kidnap English) n. (context legal English) The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom. vb. (present participle of kidnap English)
WordNet
v. take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped" [syn: nobble, abduct, snatch]
[also: kidnapping, kidnapped]
n. (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment [syn: snatch]
See kidnap
Wikipedia
In criminal law, kidnapping is the abduction or unlawful transportation of a person, usually to hold the person against his or her will. This may be done for ransom or in furtherance of another crime, or in connection with a child custody dispute.
In some countries such as the United States a large number of child abductions arise after separation or divorce when one parent wishes to keep a child against the will of the other or against a court order. In these cases, some jurisdictions do not consider it kidnapping if the child, being competent, agrees.
Kidnapping is the taking away of a person against the person's will.
Kidnapping or kidnap may also refer to:
Usage examples of "kidnapping".
Larchmont, New York, have reported the apparent kidnapping of the wife, young son and father of CBA News anchorman Crawford Sloane.
Several startling new developments, he wrote, have come to light concerning the kidnapping, fifteen days ago, of the wife, son andfather of CBA News anchorman Crawford Sloane.
The survivors of this particular campaign recently signed an affidavit testifying to the mass kidnapping at their Fiftieth Jubilee of the Anzac Landing.
Once the blackmailer realized his attempt at kidnapping had failed, he would avoid any connection to the person who might identify him.
Blackmail her by telling his fellow tantriks about kidnapping brahmin orphans for her?
It is the conception which underlies congressional legislation of recent years making certain crimes against the States, like theft, racketeering, kidnapping, crimes also against the National Government whenever the offender extends his activities beyond state boundary lines.
Page one ran a story about the Philippine Igorots, who stood accused of kidnapping local dogs for their cooking pots.
Chairman says that it is a kidnapping, that it has to be a kidnapping, and that there is only one way to handle a kidnapping on Venus if one ever expects to see the kidnappee alive again.
The mysterious kidnapping of Paris and Seven added another stressor to the mix, and Janeway was still trying to figure out if Secretary Nashi was trustworthy.
As mentioned earlier, there was so much kidnapping for hire in the late 1920s and early 1930s that a subindustry grew up in laundering ransom money.
Everybody around here knows that in 1838, when the state was kidnapping chiefs to force them to sign the land treaty, not one single chief from Tonawanda let himself be caught.
On Friday morning, one day after the Sloane family kidnapping, the firing-up process had begun as the special task force headed by Harry Partridge, with Rita Abrams as senior producer, began assembling within CBA News headquarters.
As many as eighty Basques died in a dirty war of kidnappings, torture, bombings and murder, all masterminded by their own government.
The plan might have worked out, too, but for those Navajo bikers getting involved in the kidnapping of the Brits.
A kidnapping -- The man and butlers haul away several ministers, and -- Escape from the rear doors.