Definitions for bought
bɔtbought

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Bought(noun)

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

2. Bought(noun)

   the part of a sling that contains the stone

3. Bought

   imp. & p. p. of Buy

4. Bought

   purchased; bribed

5. Bought

   of Buy

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Bought

   bawt, pa.t. and pa.p. of Buy.—Bought′en in an archaic form.

2. Bought

   bowt, n. a bight or bend: (Spens.) a twist or coil: the bend of a sling in which the stone is placed. [See Bight.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bought' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1395

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bought' in Written Corpus Frequency: #470

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bought in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bought in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of bought in a Sentence

1. Pete Stavros:

   Explaining to people how lean transformations at a factory correspond to what happens to our cost of goods sold and our earnings and our stock price, that’s kind of the change in thinking you want to get people bought into.

2. Cissy Kagaba:

   They (anti-riot gear) will have an intimidating effect... it's going to be difficult to convince us that these things have been bought for legitimate security concerns.

3. Natalia Carvalho:

   It's a lack of respect for the fan that bought tickets. It's a shame.

4. Beto ORourkes:

   This is a country that has produced the leadership that will ensure that we not only have universal background checks and red flag laws and end the sale of those weapons of war but that we go the necessary steps further, as politically difficult as they may be, a gun registry in this country [and] licensing for every American who owns a firearm.And every single one of those AR-15s and AK-47s will be bought back so theyre not on our streets, not in our homes, and do not take the lives of our fellow Americans.

5. Zahirul Islam:

   Everyone thought prices will improve and bought a lot, but now they are sitting on huge inventories, it will be a disaster in the coming months.

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