bounty
a premium or reward, especially one offered by a government: There was a bounty on his head. Some states offer a bounty for dead coyotes.
a generous gift.
generosity in giving.
Origin of bounty
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Other words from bounty
- boun·ty·less, adjective
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How to use bounty in a sentence
Of course, cinema has set feasts on screen for a long, long time, using food to evoke desire, love, loneliness, bounty, joy, and a lot more.
Scientists locked in on that goal some decades ago and set out to clone a single “elite” palm, one that produced a bounty of oil, into 50,000 palms just like it.
The Environmental Headache in Your Shampoo - Issue 90: Something Green | Anastasia Bendebury & Michael Shilo DeLay | September 16, 2020 | NautilusSo, this conglomerate of women, plus the bounty hunter, equaled intrigue for Rachel and me.
“People want to believe”: How Love Fraud builds an absorbing docuseries around a romantic con man | Alissa Wilkinson | September 4, 2020 | VoxFinally, if you panic-planted a pandemic garden, salads are by far the best way to deploy your bounty.
Snap delivered its annual “partner summit” virtually in the second-quarter, where it showed off a bounty of new products including Minis, which lets third-party developers create what are essentially mini apps inside of the Snapchat platform.
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Rural churches were deserted, and the connection between the land and the bounty of harvests was gone.
A bounty hunter told AFP that the suspected Texan could very well be Everett Livvix of Robinson, Illinois.
The Strange Case of the Christian Zionist Terrorist | Creede Newton | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe state of Idaho paid a bounty hunter to kill wolves in the Salmon River country.
ISIS also had made use of its bounty of captured American equipment.
Lobbyists use these trips to lavish bounty on Congressmen, far from prying eyes.
Former Lobbyist Jack Abramoff On Congressional Travel Disclosure | Jack Abramoff | July 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTInstinct had prompted her to put away her husband's bounty in casting off her allegiance.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinI feel most grateful to you for your kindness, for your generous sympathy in my sorrow, but I cannot accept your bounty.
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieThe good folk do not accept the bounty of their Queen without making her a return for it in kind.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellThis fair one was attended by bounty, Beauty, and all the rest; they are called a folk in l. 48.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerA testator may bequeath property to a trustee who shall select the objects of the testator's bounty.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney Bolles
British Dictionary definitions for bounty (1 of 2)
/ (ˈbaʊntɪ) /
generosity in giving to others; liberality
a generous gift; something freely provided
a payment made by a government, as, formerly, to a sailor on enlisting or to a soldier after a campaign
any reward or premium: a bounty of 20p for every rat killed
Origin of bounty
1British Dictionary definitions for Bounty (2 of 2)
/ (ˈbaʊntɪ) /
a British naval ship commanded by Captain William Bligh, which was on a scientific voyage in 1789 between Tahiti and the West Indies when her crew mutinied
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