Usually means: Unlawful confinement against someone's will.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. kidnapping: Merriam-Webster
  2. kidnapping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kidnapping: Collins English Dictionary
  4. kidnapping: Vocabulary.com
  5. Kidnapping, kidnapping: Wordnik
  6. kidnapping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. kidnapping: Wiktionary
  8. kidnapping: Dictionary.com
  9. kidnapping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Kidnapping, The Kidnapping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Kidnapping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. kidnapping: Rhymezone
  13. Kidnapping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. kidnapping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. kidnapping: FreeDictionary.org
  16. kidnapping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. kidnapping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. kidnapping: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. kidnapping: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. kidnapping: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. kidnapping: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kidnapping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kidnapping: Medical dictionary

(Note: See kidnap as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (kidnapping)

noun:  (crime) The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom.

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