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.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The marshland was bought up by a housing company.
- The saleswoman told her that her face would look older unless she bought this line of skincare products.
- I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
- 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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