bought meaning
EN[bɔːt] [-ɔːt] [bɔt] [bɑt]US
WBought
- Bought (1931) is an all-talking pre-code drama film produced and released by Warner Bros. and directed by Archie Mayo. The movie stars Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, Richard Bennett and Dorothy Peterson.
- NounPLboughts
- (obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
- (obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
- (obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
- (obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
- (obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
- (obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
- Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of buy.
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
- simple past tense and past participle of buy.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it.
- The marshland was bought up by a housing company.
- Northern Rock had already cracked by the time RBS bought ABN Amro, pointed out one MP. McKillop protested that "15 workstreams" at RBS were saying the numbers on the deal still made sense
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- I loved those red shoes but I couldn't thoil it in addition to the new dress I'd bought.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of bought in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary