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bounty (s) (noun); bounties (pl)
A sum of money given to a person, normally through the government, for some specific service: A bounty> is a monetary reward offered for the capture of a person who escaped prosecution from a given jurisdiction:
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bounty hunter (s) (noun), bounty hunters (pl)
A person who tracks down and catches a criminal and takes him or her to the police; a person who earns a living by apprehending lawbreakers: When people post a bond with a bonding company and the bonding company hires a bounty hunter to track down criminals, the money deposited with the courts by the bonding company can be recovered.

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