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verbeadjectifnomtop 1 000 des dialogues de films

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈbɔːt//
  • États-Unis//ˈbɔt//
  • //ˈbɑt//
  • //ˈbɒt//

Compromised by money from special interests; corrupt.

verbe

  1. 1

    Aussi une forme de 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%.

Étymologie

See buy.

adjectif

  1. 1

    familierCompromised 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?

nom

  1. 1

    obsolèteA bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.

  2. 2

    obsolèteA bend or hollow in a human or animal body.

  3. 3

    obsolèteA 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

    obsolèteThe part of a sling that contains the stone.

  5. 5

    obsolèteA 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.

Étymologie

From Middle English bought, bowght, bouȝt, *buȝt, probably an alteration of bight, biȝt, byȝt (“bend, bight”) after bowen, buwen, buȝen (“to bow, bend”). Cognate with Scots boucht, bucht, bout (“bend”). More at bight and bout.

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Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).