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bought

[ bawt ]

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of buy.


adjective

  1. South Midland and Southern U.S. store-bought.

bought

/ ɔː /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of buy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. purchased from a shop; not homemade
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ܲ·dzܲ adjective
  • ɱ-dzܲ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bought1

First recorded before 900, for the adjective for an earlier sense
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Idioms and Phrases

see under buy .
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These are bought by companies wishing to offset their carbon emissions.

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A few years later, the couple bought more than 200 undeveloped acres in the Santa Monica Mountains, in the nascent community of Pacific Palisades.

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But a year before he died, he bought one of those books that you find in the stationery store — “All About My Dad,” and he filled it out.

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He earned his first money as a six-year-old, bought his first shares at 11 and filed his first tax return at 13.

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"Animals like Steve being bought and sold as novelty pets, often on impulse, with little understanding of the complex care they require."

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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