(informal, politics) Compromised by money from special interests; corrupt.
bought
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bought.
Editorial note
She beat Carano and eventually the league (Strikeforce) went out of business and got bought by the UFC.
Quick take
(informal, politics) Compromised by money from special interests; corrupt.
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for bought.
adjective
(informal, politics) Compromised by money from special interests; corrupt.
Example sentences
She beat Carano and eventually the league (Strikeforce) went out of business and got bought by the UFC.
Google bought it instead, just as it went from MVP to software product line.
Books I suppose are the most likely candidate, but those can definitely be bought with $500...
It is listed now at $280 for 28 days (112 meals), which used to be $255 (when I bought it).
I might order another dozen of these shirts, because they were cheaper and much better than anything I've ever bought retail.
Like this thing doesnt happen all the time, or like how big companies havent already bought up every little company that stood in it's way?
Given Intuit bought Mint, and I've trusted my taxes to Intuit for decades, I'll grudgingly take that risk to solve other problems.
Yes, I've been a mint user since well before they were bought by Intuit.
This happens to some of my store-bought shirts too.
I seem to have unconsciously trained myself not to see ads, especially after seeing ads for sit-stand desks after I had bought one.
They were dogmatic about it, it's scary how bought into they were to orthodox, agricultural, labor-based Marxism, anti-capitalism, anti-bourgeois.
I haven't paid much attention to Maya since Autodesk bought it, but people seemed pretty excited when the price dropped from $7,000 to $2,000.
Quote examples
I'm using "Cha-Ching 2 beta" which was abandoned some 6 years ago when Intuit bought out the company working on it but the beta still works (I owned a copy of Cha-Ching 1 from some software bundle I picked up).
I never questioned for a second my purchase of "Hello Web App", but the little girl that I bought "Hello Ruby" for is going to be almost too old for the book finally being delivered.
(For the curious, the confirmation e-mail was sent via ExactTarget and they didn't strip off "+papajohns".) I just started doing this several months ago but it helped me discover that either the dealership I bought my newest car from or Reynolds and Reynolds (who provide an application the dealership uses) shared my e-mail address with Edmunds.com, who later started spamming me.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use bought in a sentence?
She beat Carano and eventually the league (Strikeforce) went out of business and got bought by the UFC.
What does bought mean?
(informal, politics) Compromised by money from special interests; corrupt.
What part of speech is bought?
bought is commonly used as adjective.