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Jul 17, 2008
This week's themeWords related to royalty This week's words magna carta royal we morganatic king's ransom queen regnant Got a blog? Free content for your blog words, quotations & more 
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with Anu Gargking's ransomPRONUNCIATION:
(kingz RAN-suhm)
MEANING:
noun: A very large sum of money.
ETYMOLOGY:
From the reference to the large sum required to secure the release of a king
from captivity.
USAGE:
"Its nickname, CrackBerry, says it all. [A study] found that a third
of BlackBerry users show signs of addiction 'similar to alcoholics'.
Many companies would give a king's ransom for such customer
dependency."Are You Addicted To Your BlackBerry?; Forbes (New York); Apr 3, 2008. See more usage examples of king's ramsom in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Profits, like sausages and laws, are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. -Gary Hector, author and journalist (b. 1951)
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