(REWARD) [noun] [C] - a sum of money paid as a rewardA bounty of $10 000 has been offered for the capture of his murderer.The military government has placed a bounty on the heads of many of its opponents (= It has offered a reward to people who kill them).A bounty hunter is someone who searches for criminals or hunts animals in exchange for a reward.
BOUNTY
Meaning of BOUNTY in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012