bought

American  

[bawt] / bɔt /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buy.

---

adjective

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

bought British  

/ bɔːt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of buy

---

adjective

1. purchased from a shop; not homemade

bought Idioms  

1. see under buy.

---

Other Word Forms

• unbought adjective
• well-bought adjective

Etymology

Origin of bought

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

Compare meaning

How does bought compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

• bought vs. brought

Example Sentences

Suppose an investor bought a piece of bitcoin for $50,000 and then sold it for $100,000 more than a year later.

From MarketWatch

Individual investors have aggressively bought the dip in the IGV software ETF, according to Vanda Research data.

From MarketWatch

Yet for people who bought homes in the past three years, paying much higher prices and steeper mortgage rates, delinquencies have been picking up, Taiano noted.

From MarketWatch

“There were a lot of people that bought Ford Focuses and Escorts that ended up buying Explorers and Expeditions and F-Series trucks later,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Wolfe tracks a list of what of what might be called, buyback aristocrats, companies that have bought back shares for 10 consecutive years.

From Barron's