bought

[bawt]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buy.

adjective

1. South Midland and Southern U.S.,  store-bought.

bought

/ bɔːt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of buy

adjective

1. purchased from a shop; not homemade

Other Word Forms

• unbought adjective
• well-bought adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bought¹

First recorded before 900, for the adjective for an earlier sense

Idioms and Phrases

see under buy.

Example Sentences

Sennott and her fellow executive producer Emma Barrie bought it to replace an identical piece their fellow executive producer Max Silvestri lost in the wildfires that ripped across the region earlier this year.

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My father and Uncle John found it in a used-car lot in Lancaster, Calif. They bought it but had never done anything with it.

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The experiments are part of Amazon’s push to shake up its natural-foods crown jewel, eight years after it bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.

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Certain Kazakh vendors selling Molecule to Russians told the BBC they bought stock from friends or warehouses in the capital Astana but couldn't name the original supplier.

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The end of subsidies for plans bought under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, will become more apparent as open enrollment begins for those plans.

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