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bought
[ bawt ]
adjective
- South Midland and Southern U.S. store-bought.
bought
/ ɔː /
verb
- the past tense and past participle of buy
adjective
- purchased from a shop; not homemade
Other yvlog Forms
- ܲ·dzܲ adjective
- ɱ-dzܲ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bought1
Idioms and Phrases
see under buy .Compare Meanings
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Example Sentences
It was where his mother first bought him a ticket in 2005.
However, the court heard she had first gone out and bought milk and sandwiches "so he could eat before he was taken into police custody", actions the coroner described as "even more callous" than Sheridan's.
I bought cold cuts just to have an excuse to make sandwiches with homemade mayo.
Plus, you may be generating a tax bill, since a stock that’s down for the year may still be worth more than when you bought it.
On the other hand, someone who bought a house 10 years ago for $500,000 and sells today for $1.5 million would pay nothing.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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