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bought
[ bawt ]
adjective
- South Midland and Southern U.S. store-bought.
bought
/ ɔː /
verb
- the past tense and past participle of buy
adjective
- purchased from a shop; not homemade
Other Word Forms
- ܲ·dzܲ adjective
- ɱ-dzܲ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of bought1
Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
“Donda didn’t really have any structure. They had books that they had bought that were just sitting on shelves. Kids were just playing all day. It was just a free-for-all.”
Separately, The Times found that UFLAC’s former treasurer, Domingo Albarran Jr., bought a union car at an alleged discount — and then reported an even lower sale price to the state to avoid paying taxes.
In January, it reversed rules for its cafes in North America that allowed people to use their facilities even if they had not bought anything.
"We bought a lot of food that wasn't going to go off, like tuna in cans, just in case," says actor Jaime.
She bought her first apartment in a prewar building on the Upper West Side soon after.
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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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