bounty hunter
someone who searches for people for a reward
TRANSLATION
bounty hunter = der Kopfgeldjäger/die Kopfgeldjägerin bounty = das Kopfgeld --- GOOGLE INDEX bounty hunter: approximately 5,700,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Doug Chapman calls himself the greatest BOUNTY HUNTER in the world and claims more than 6,000 captures, though he says he often does not get paid the full 10%-15% of the bail money promised.
(BBC News)
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Jury awards nearly $1.2 million to BOUNTY HUNTER shot by police
(Los Angeles Times - news headline)
(BBC News)
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Jury awards nearly $1.2 million to BOUNTY HUNTER shot by police
(Los Angeles Times - news headline)
Did you
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bounty hunter
noun phrase
- one who pursues a criminal or fugitive for whom a reward is offered
- one who hunts predatory animals in order to collect a bounty
(American Heritage Dictionary)
bounty
noun
- a sum of money paid as a reward
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Bounty hunting is legal in only two countries: the United States and the Philippines. This is because they are the only two countries that have commercial bail bondsmen. These are people who take money or property from criminal defendants as a way of ensuring that they appear in court. Other countries do not accept the concept of bounty hunting and recognize it as kidnapping.
The concept of the bounty hunter originated in the wild west of the U.S. when local sheriffs didn't have the resources to track down outlaws like the infamous Jesse James. Instead they put up so-called "wanted" posters offering a reward to anyone who could capture the person shown on the poster. Really dangerous outlaws were put in the "wanted dead or alive" category.
Hollywood has romanticised bounty hunters as cynical loners in films such as The Bounty Hunter starring Randolph Scott and Sergio Leone's spaghetti western For A Few Dollars More with Clint Eastwood.
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SYNONYMS
criminal hunter, fugitive hunter
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"If you want to be a bounty hunter, you'll have to move to the U.S. or the Philippines."
noun phrase
- one who pursues a criminal or fugitive for whom a reward is offered
- one who hunts predatory animals in order to collect a bounty
(American Heritage Dictionary)
bounty
noun
- a sum of money paid as a reward
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Bounty hunting is legal in only two countries: the United States and the Philippines. This is because they are the only two countries that have commercial bail bondsmen. These are people who take money or property from criminal defendants as a way of ensuring that they appear in court. Other countries do not accept the concept of bounty hunting and recognize it as kidnapping.
The concept of the bounty hunter originated in the wild west of the U.S. when local sheriffs didn't have the resources to track down outlaws like the infamous Jesse James. Instead they put up so-called "wanted" posters offering a reward to anyone who could capture the person shown on the poster. Really dangerous outlaws were put in the "wanted dead or alive" category.
Hollywood has romanticised bounty hunters as cynical loners in films such as The Bounty Hunter starring Randolph Scott and Sergio Leone's spaghetti western For A Few Dollars More with Clint Eastwood.
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SYNONYMS
criminal hunter, fugitive hunter
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"If you want to be a bounty hunter, you'll have to move to the U.S. or the Philippines."
