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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 Word Forms

  • ܲ·dzܲ adjective
  • ɱ-dzܲ adjective
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Word 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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“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.”

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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.

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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.

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"We bought a lot of food that wasn't going to go off, like tuna in cans, just in case," says actor Jaime.

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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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