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Definition of Outbought
1. outbuy [v] - See also: outbuy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outbought
Literary usage of Outbought
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1875)
"... outbought my full share in the fraught, And paid me down near thirty thousand
pounds In wares and money. GEORGE. Which, had he not done, ..."
2. Bulls and Bears of New York: With the Crisis of 1873, and the Cause by Matthew Hale Smith (1874)
"... have been outbought and outvoted by others. Unlike all others, the Atlantic
Bank had a religious origin, and so far has been managed by the denomination ..."
3. From St. Francis to Dante: Translations from the Chronicle of the Franciscan by George Gordon Coulton (1907)
"... that the Bolognese found themselves outbought and outsold even in their own
districts, and were compelled in self-defence to build a fortress at ..."
4. Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1815)
"Tis impossible; they rid at Dover safe, When he outbought my full share in the
fraught, And paid me down near thirty thousand 'pounds In wares and money. ..."
5. Commercial Travelling: Its Features, Past and Present by Algernon Warren (1904)
"If he take it, he is certain to be outbought by conductors of rival establishments.
Therefore he requires his capital to ..."
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