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Meaning of blood money

- Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
- Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.