bought

Verb

1. 1

   Auch eine Form von buysimple past and past participle of buy.

   She bought an expensive bag last week.

   People have bought gas masks.

   Our products can be bought at your local store.

   In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

Adjektiv

1. 1

   umgangssprachlichCompromised by money from special interests; corrupt.

   Any senators who vote for this bill must be bought.

   Don't bother filing a complaint, the regulators are bought.

   If union leadership is bought, why should we even pay dues?

Substantiv

1. 1

   veraltetA bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.

2. 2

   veraltetA bend or hollow in a human or animal body.

3. 3

   veraltetA curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.

   the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of this bought is Tauxenent with 40 men.

4. 4

   veraltetThe part of a sling that contains the stone.

5. 5

   veraltetA fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.

   Her huge long taile her den all ouerſpred, / Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, / Pointed with mortall ſting.

Formen

Plural

boughts