bought
For the verb: "to buy"
| Simple Past: | bought |
| Past Participle: | bought |
bought buy
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bought /bɔːt/
past and past participle of buy.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
buy/bʌɪ/
▶verb (buys, buying; past and past part. bought)
- 1 obtain in exchange for payment.
■ (buy someone out) pay someone to give up an ownership, interest, or share.
■ (buy oneself out) obtain one's release from the armed services by payment.
■ (buy something in) withdraw something at auction because it fails to reach the reserve price.
- 2 get by sacrifice or great effort.
- 3 informal accept the truth of.
– phrases
buy the farm N. Amer. informal die.
buy it informal be killed.
buy time delay an event temporarily so as to have longer to improve one's own position.
buy the farm N. Amer. informal die.
buy it informal be killed.
buy time delay an event temporarily so as to have longer to improve one's own position.
– origin OE bycgan, of Gmc origin.
'bought' also found in these Oxford entries:
all-ticket
- bargain
- bot.
- boughten
- bout
- buy
- capital goods
- chalk
- chip and PIN
- commodity
- cost
- cost price
- counter
- fairing
- future
- halfpennyworth
- hostile
- job lot
- long
- message
- multipack
- penetration
- pennyworth
- pig
- potter's field
- purchase
- resale
- resell
- round
- saloon
- shopping
- stock exchange
- trade
- traded option
- transpire
