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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.
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    Definition of bought in English Dictionary

  • NounPLboughts
    1. (obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
      1. (obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
        1. (obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
          1. (obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
            1. (obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
            2. Verb
              1. simple past tense and past participle of buy.
                1. 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%.
            3. More Examples
              1. 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.
              2. 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.
            • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
              1. Nouns
                • Countable nouns
                • Verbs
                  • Verb forms
                    • Irregular verb forms
                      • Irregular past participles
                        • Irregular simple past forms
                        • Participles
                          • Past participles
                          • Verb simple past forms
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                      Source: Wiktionary

                      Meaning of bought for the defined word.

                      Grammatically, this word "bought" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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