Meaning

simple past and past participle of buy..

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of buy.
2. (informal, politics) Compromised by money from special interests; corrupt.
3. A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
4. A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
5. A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
6. The part of a sling that contains the stone.
7. A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.

Example Sentences

She bought an expensive bag last week.

People have bought gas masks.

Our products can be bought at your local store.

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%.

Any senators who vote for this bill must be bought.

Don't bother filing a complaint, the regulators are bought.

If union leadership is bought, why should we even pay dues?

the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of this bought is Tauxenent with 40 men.

Word Forms

• boughts
• bout
• bowt
• boughte
• bughte

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Use bought when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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