What is "ransoms"

Usage examples of "ransoms".

Crete and taken captive by pirates-it took two months for the cities of Peloponnesian Greece to raise our ransoms, and then we had to finish the voyage by sailing to Cyrene and hugging the Libyan coast to Alexandria.

All corporations also had irate shareholders, whose dividends diminished as ransoms rose.

If we arrest people for paying ransoms to rescue their wives and children, we can hardly pay up for a mere painting.