Oughts
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɔːts/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Oughts is a noun meaning plural of ought.
Meaning
plural of ought.
More Meanings
- Alternative spelling of aughts (“first decade of a century”).
Example Sentences
He and his clever staff of minor blackguards exploited to the full every weakness and caries in the London Society of the 'eighties, 'nineties, and 'oughts.
2000, John Maxtone-Graham, Liners to the Sun, Sheridan House, Inc., →ISBN, page xii, And for the oughts—by which I suppose we must identify our new millennium's first decade—projected tonnage figures keep up the mind-boggling pace.
The "experts" of the Western world are slower to turn around than an ocean liner, and in Europe they were still yakking about the "population explosion" even as their 1970s schoolhouses, built in anticipation of traditional Catholic birth rates, were emptying through the nineties and oughts.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include should, must, need, shoulds, mights, oughtness.
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