BOUGHT

Definition: BOUGHT

BOUGHT

1. Imp. & p. p. of Buy.

Adjective

1. Purchased; bribed.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Buy

Noun

1. The part of a sling that contains the stone.

2. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BOUGHT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Curvature

Curvature, curvity, curvation; incurvature, incurvity; incurvation; bend; flexure, flexion, flection; conflexure; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflection, deflexion; inflection, inflexion; concameration; arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity, recurvation; sinuosity.

Dearness

Adjective: dear; high, high priced; of great price, expensive, costly, precious; worth a Jew's eye, dear bought.

Crosswords: BOUGHT

He bought you another half hour (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe)

Not in months, I don't know why I bought the damn place (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss)

Now George has a love at his side and she is sticking with him. You know why? Because he bought her chairs (Phenomenon; writing credit: Gerald Di Pego)

There's a lot of statues in Europe you haven't bought yet. (Citizen Kane; writing credit: Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles)

I didn't sell out son, I bought in. (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

Last night, you bought something special (Can't Stop; performing artist: After 7)

'n' Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry)

Bought it at the five and dime (Summer Of '69; performing artist: Bryan Adams)

Let them know we bought that cake, straight out the gate (Lady Marmalade; performing artist: Christina Aguilera)

One long pause, then you begin, oh look what the cat's bought in (Hunter; performing artist: Dido)

True happiness may be sought, thought, or caught--but never bought. (references; author: unknown)

I bought a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer. (references; author: unknown)

Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers. (references; author: unknown)

The boot black bought the black boot back. (references; author: unknown)

The Man Who Bought Paradise (1965)

Bought (1931)

The Wife He Bought (1918)

Have You Bought Your Liberty Bond? (1917)

The Man Who Bought London (1916)

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

Books

• Bought by the Billionaire (Silhouette Romance, 1610) (reference)

• I Bought It at Polk Bros: The Story of an American Retailing Phenomenon (reference)

• I Would Have Bought You A Cat , But... (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Man Who Bought Mustique (reference)

• Honey We Bought the Company (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bought the Farm (reference)

• You Bought It You Name It (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Entrance foyer, first floor, from south. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, June 1984. (Reproduction Number: HABS, ARK,26-HOSP,1-D-17) Praised by its original owner as "the most practical, complete, and luxurious bathhouse in the world," the Fordyce Bathhouse in Hot Springs stands today as a reminder of the international health-spa craze of the first half of the twentieth century. People from all over the world flocked to the Fordyce and the other bathhouses on "Bathhouse Row" in Hot Springs in the hope that the many natural springs in the area would help cure their illnesses. Visitors at the Fordyce bought their bath tickets in this foyer before proceeding to the dressing rooms and then to the baths. Today, the Fordyce Bathhouse is the Visitor Center at Hot Springs National Park. Credit: Library of Congress.

Critical moments. When you wore your first derby hat, the one your mother bought for you in St. Louis. Credit: Library of Congress.

Washington, D.C., 1940--A Negro girl giving thanks for a free school lunch made possible by surplus farm products bought by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation and turned over to local relief agencies for distribution. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jack Gardinier who has bought a farm under the tenant purchase program. Ottawa County, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using ancient Buick (transformed by cutting down the chassis) as improvised tractor. Automobile bought in second hand car lot. Cost fifteen dollars. New Bridgetown, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress.

Representative Shannon of Missouri. Articles bought at Army canteen. Credit: Library of Congress.

My daddy bought me a government bond of the Third Liberty Loan--Did yours? / The United States Printing & Lithograph Co., New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

"I bought two air conditioners, a fan and these, just in case!". Credit: Library of Congress.

Honor roll The following patriotic men and women in this organization have bought bonds of the 4th Liberty Loan / / Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co. Chicago. Credit: Library of Congress.

My daddy bought me a government bond of the Third Liberty Loan--Did yours? / The United States Printing & Lithograph Co., New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The two ladies bought their tickets and moved slowly down the central platform

Listolier blew a wooden trumpet that he had bought at Saint Cloud

Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass

Some bought a pint and drank it fast to make the impact hard and stunning

I had already bought the shanty of James Collins, an Irishman who worked on the Fitchburg Railroad, for boards

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

I bought everything in sight. (references)

I bought a pair of boots--galoshes really. (references)

Methamphetamine is not usually sold and bought on the streets like many of the other known illicit drugs. (references)

Business

Books at these levels must be bought by both public and private school students. (references)

UPC has recently bought several local cable TV operators and has 412,000 clients. (references)

Equipment bought under state funding arrangement experience a competitive bidding process. (references)

Children

Indonesia

The babies allegedly were bought from low-income families and were sold to wealthy infertile couples. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

According to a May 14 Keston report, the region's chief architect, refused to allow a Protestant congregation in Vyborg to restore or even use a building it bought in 1998; authorities have refused to rezone the site for public (rather than industrial) use. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

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

Human Rights

South Africa

In September the charged trespassers were acquitted, because they believed they legitimately had bought the plots. (references)

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)

Honduras

Prisoners with money routinely bought private cells, decent food, and permission for conjugal visits, while prisoners without money often lacked basic necessities, as well as legal assistance. (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)

Indonesia

Since the workers could not afford the prices, they bought the goods using vouchers representing future wages, thereby, according to the ILO, "turning once independent and relatively well-off farmers into impoverished bonded laborers trapped in an ever-mounting cycle of debt." Tensions with indigenous people in Papua continued. (references)

Political Economy

TUNISIA

As of October 10, 2001, one dollar bought 1.43 dinar, as opposed to 1.47 one year ago. (references)

Trade

Moldova

In early 2001, WESTNIS bought 9.9 percent in Moldova's leading commercial bank Moldova-Agroindbank. (references)

Qatar

Only one U.S. firm, involved in the Phase I development of the North Field project, bought the OPIC insurance for risk of convertibility and war. (references)

Guyana

The one remaining state-owned bank is Guyana National Co-Operative Bank (GNCB), was prepared for privatization during 2001. There are three foreign-owned banks--the Bank of Nova Scotia (Canada), the Bank of Baroda (India), and the National Bank of Industry and Commerce (NBIC), which was bought by Republic Bank of Trinidad. (references)

Travel

Trinidad

Almost all prescription drugs can be bought locally. (references)

Korea

Articles bought in "duty free" shops in foreign countries are subject to U.S. customs duty. (references)

Lithuania

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

Worker Rights

Albania

Such children often were bought from families and even kidnaped. (references)

Uganda

The children allegedly were abducted or bought from their parents by organized gangs from Nigeria, DRC, and Angola. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Criminal rings consisting almost exclusively of foreigners have bought and imported South Asian children, including children with disabilities, and women for the purpose of organized begging, particularly in the vicinity of the Grand Mosque in Mecca during Islamic holidays. (references)

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

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

Expressions using "BOUGHT": dear bought ♦ we bought this between us. Additional references.

Beginning with "BOUGHT": bought-and-paid-for, bought-back, bought-deal, bought-in, bought-out.

Ending with "BOUGHT": newly-bought, shop-bought.

Arabic 

‏مشترى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

купувам (book, buy, cop, deal, get, invest, pick up, purchase, trade). (various references)

Chinese 

买. (various references)

Czech

min.èas i příè.min. od buy. (various references)

Danish

varer købt på markedet og faktisk forbrugt i den pågældende periode af den enhed,som køber dem,dvs.løbende køb af varer plus værdien af varer udtaget fra begyndelseslageret og minus værdien af lignende varer,lagt på lager i løbet af den pågæl (goods bought on the market and actually consumed by the unit which buys them during the relevant period, plus the value of similar goods withdrawn from stocks existing at the beginning of the period and minus the value of similar goods added to stocks during the period), lagertilgang-som registreres på det tidspunkt,hvor varerne produceres,forudsat at de ikke sælges med det samme,eller på det tidspunkt,hvor varerne købes,forudsat at de ikke anvendes med det samme (goods put into stock-recorded at the time they are produced but not sold immediately, or bought but not used immediately), indkoebsfoder (bought-in feedstuffs), handelsfoder (bought-in feedstuffs). (various references)

Dutch

toevoegingen aan de voorraden-die geregistreerd worden op het tijdstip waarop de goederen geproduceerd zijn zonder te worden verkocht,of gekocht zijn zonder onmiddellijk verbruikt te worden (goods put into stock-recorded at the time they are produced but not sold immediately, or bought but not used immediately), op de markt aangekochte goederen die werkelijk worden verbruikt door de eenheid die deze tijdens de beschouwde periode aankoopt,dat wil zeggen de lopende aankopen van goederen,vermeerderd met de onttrekkingen van gelijksoortige goederen aan de bij het beg (goods bought on the market and actually consumed by the unit which buys them during the relevant period, plus the value of similar goods withdrawn from stocks existing at the beginning of the period and minus the value of similar goods added to stocks during the period), aangekochte voedermiddelen (bought-in feedstuffs). (various references)

Finnish

se kirja, jonka ostin (the book I bought), ostorehut (bought-in feedstuffs). (various references)

French

les biens achetés sur le marché et effectivement consommés par l'unité qui les achète au cours de la période considerée,c'est-à-dire les achats courants de biens augmentés des prélèvements de biens similaires sur les stocks existant en début d (goods bought on the market and actually consumed by the unit which buys them during the relevant period), entrées en stocks-qui sont enregistrées au moment où les biens sont produits sans être vendus ou achetés sans être utilisés immédiatement (or bought but not used immediately), aliments achetés (bought-in feedstuffs). (various references)

German

kaufte (purchased), gekauft, eingekauft. (various references)

Greek 

αόρ. του buy. (various references)

Hungarian

vesz (buy, get, lay hold of, oppress, pick up, press, purchase, squeeze, take, take over, taken, to buy, to commune, to fence, to gibe, to list, to nick, to put in an appearance, to re-enter, to scorn, to take, to wed, took), vásárol (buy, got, purchase, take over, to buy, to cope, to get), megvett, megvesz (buy, to buy, to purchase), megvásárol (purchase, to appease, to buy, to purchase). (various references)

Indonesian

terbeli (affordable). (various references)

Italian

beni passati a scorte-registrati nel momento in cui sono prodotti senza essere venduti o comprati senza essere immediatamente utilizzati (goods put into stock-recorded at the time they are produced but not sold immediately, or bought but not used immediately), i beni acquistati sul mercato e effettivamente impiegati dall'unità che li acquista durante il periodo in esame,cioè gli acquisti correnti di beni aumentati dei beni simili prelevati dalle scorte esitenti all'inizio del periodo,e diminuiti dei beni simi (goods bought on the market and actually consumed by the unit which buys them during the relevant period, i.e.current purchases of goods, plus the value of similar goods withdrawn from stocks existing at the beginning of the period and minus the value of similar goods added to stocks during the period), foraggi supplementari acquistati (bought-in feedstuffs), foraggi acquistati (bought-in feedstuffs). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

前に買った分 (the lot I bought earlier). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まえにかったぶん (the lot I bought earlier). (various references)

Korean 

사는 (Lived, Marketed). (various references)

Manx

kionnit (purchased). (various references)

Pig Latin

oughtbay.(various references)

Portuguese

comprados. (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

comprados. (various references)

Romanian

trecut şi participiu trecut de la buy. (various references)

Russian 

покупать (acquire, buy, get, purchase, take over). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proš. vreme od buy. (various references)

Slovene

kupovala. (various references)

Spanish

pret y pp de buy. (various references)

Swedish

köpt. (various references)

Thai

กริยาช่องที่ 2 ของ buy. (various references)

Ukrainian

кошара для овець, заганяти овець до кошари. (various references)

Welsh

pry+n (purchased). (various references)

empticii, empticius. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "BOUGHT": boughten. (additional references)

Words ending with "BOUGHT": abought, outbought, overbought, rebought, unbought, underbought. (additional references)

Misspellings

"BOUGHT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baughit, baught, beruhrt, blough, boght, boghte, boghten, Bonghi, boughta, boughts, bouih, Bourgh, boute, bowt, bpught, Bukht, buute, noughth. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bough, ought, tough.

-2 letters: bhut, both, bout, gout, thou, thug.

-3 letters: bog, bot, bug, but, gob, got, gut, hob, hog, hot, hub, hug, hut, out, tho, tog, tub, tug, ugh.

-4 letters: bo, go, ho, oh, to, uh, ut.

+1 letter: abought, brought.

+2 letters: besought, bigmouth, boughpot, boughten, bushgoat, rebought, unbought.

+3 letters: bethought, bigmouths, boughpots, bushgoats, outbought.

+4 letters: beshouting, bigmouthed, overbought.

+5 letters: badmouthing, outbitching, outblushing, underbought.