bought

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of buy.

   People have bought gas masks.

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   She bought an expensive bag last week.

   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%.

   2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74

1. informalgovernmentCompromised by money from special interests; corrupt.

   Any senators who vote for this bill must be bought.

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

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

   Synonyms: bought and paid for

plural boughts · alternative bout · alternative bowt · alternative boughte · alternative bughte

1. obsoleteA bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
2. obsoleteA bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
3. obsoleteA 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.

   1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 159

4. obsoleteThe part of a sling that contains the stone.
5. obsoleteA 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.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 7