Bought

Bought
Buy Buy (b[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bought} (b[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Buying} (b[imac]"[i^]ng).] [OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS. bycgan, akin to OS. buggean, Goth. bugjan.] 1. To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell. [1913 Webster]

Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. --B. Franklin. [1913 Webster]

2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. [1913 Webster]

Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. --Prov. xxiii. 23. [1913 Webster]

{To buy again}. See {Againbuy}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

{To buy off}. (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party.

{To buy out} (a) To buy off, or detach from. --Shak. (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business.

{To buy in}, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership.

{To buy on credit}, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day.

{To buy the refusal} (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • bought — bought·en; un·bought; bought; …   English syllables

  • Bought — Bought, n. [Cf. Dan. bugt bend, turning, Icel. bug?a. Cf. {Bight}, {Bout}, and see {Bow} to bend.] [1913 Webster] 1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. [Obs.] Spenser. [1913 Webster] The boughts …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bought — Bought, p. a. Purchased; bribed. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bought — Bought, imp. & p. p. of {Buy}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bought|en — «B tuhn», adjective. U.S. Dialect. bought; not homemade. Usage Boughten is a nonstandard expression …   Useful english dictionary

  • bought — [bo:t US bo:t] the past tense and past participle of ↑buy …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • bought — the past tense and past participle of buy1 …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • bought — p.t. and pp. of BUY (Cf. buy) (q.v.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • bought — [bôt] vt., vi. pt. & pp. of BUY adj. Dial. BOUGHTEN …   English World dictionary

  • bought — I. past and past participle of buy II. adjective Etymology: past participle of buy Date: 1599 store 2 < bought clothes > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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