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BOUGHT AND SOLD

Specialty Definition: BOUGHT AND SOLD

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Literature

Bought and Sold or Bought, sold, and done for. Ruined, done for, outwitted.
"Jocky of Norfolk, be not too bold,
For Diccon, thy master, is bought and sold."
Shakespeare: Richard III., act v. 3.
"It would make a man mad as a buck to be so bought and sold."- Comedy of Errors, iii. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BOUGHT AND SOLD

English words defined with "BOUGHT AND SOLD": black marketcorn exchangeDolly shopMarine store, market, marketplaceReal Estate Investment Trust, REITsavings bond, stock exchange, stock markettraded. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BOUGHT AND SOLD": capital market, commodities futures, control clerk, food-and-beverageFOOD-AND-BEVERAGE CONTROLLERhydroklooritiatsidiJockey of Norfolkover the counter marketRACE-TRACK, repurchase agreementsecondary mortgage market, SMITHFIELD BARGAIN, Spot marketUNDERWRITER, MORTGAGE LOAN, unlisted securities market, unofficial market. (references)

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Modern Usage: BOUGHT AND SOLD

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Screenplays

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. (Easy Rider; writing credit: Peter Fonda; Dennis Hopper)

Lyrics

Beauties always bought and sold (Too Beautiful; performing artist: Heart)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BOUGHT AND SOLD

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Economic History

Argentina

They also can be readily bought and sold. (references)

Guatemala

Currency is bought and sold freely in national markets. (references)

Philippines

There is no difficulty in obtaining foreign exchange and foreign exchange also can be bought and sold outside the banking system. (references)

Human Rights

Azerbaijan

In April 2000, the first qualifying exams for judges were administered as part of a judicial reform effort, but credible allegations that judgeships were bought and sold persist. (references)

Indigenous People

Peru

Both AIDESEP and CONAP are critical of the 1995 land law, which permits Amazonian land to be bought and sold if no one is living on it or otherwise making use of it. Sendero Luminoso continued to be a leading violator of the rights of indigenous people. (references)

Travel

Lithuania

Lithuanian currency, the Litas, may be bought and sold at numerous currency exchange offices. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BOUGHT AND SOLD

Language Translations for "BOUGHT AND SOLD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

kötésjegyzék (bought and sold note), kötésigazolás (bought and sold note). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oughtbay anday oldsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BOUGHT AND SOLD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-g-h-l-n-o-o-s-t-u"

-3 letters: adulthoods.

-4 letters: adulthood, aunthoods, longboats, onslaught, southland, staghound.

-5 letters: aunthood, bolognas, bushgoat, bushland, butanols, dongolas, gondolas, gunboats, handouts, hangouts, holdouts, longboat, outlands, shogunal, subnodal, thousand.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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