blood money

• POS: Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: blood mon=ey

CIDE DICTIONARY

blood money,  

•  Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

blood money

account, allowance, amends, assessment, atonement, bill, blackmail, compensation, consideration, damages, emolument, fee, footing, guerdon, honorarium, hush money, indemnification, indemnity, initiation fee, meed, mileage, price, quittance, reckoning, recompense, redress, remuneration, reparation, requital, requitement, restitution, retainer, retaining fee, retribution, return, reward, salvage, satisfaction, scot, smart money, solatium, stipend, tribute, wergild