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prebought

prebought is the simple past and past participle of prebuy.

Meaning of prebuy

Verb

prebuy (third-person singular simple present prebuys, present participle prebuying, simple past and past participle prebought)

  1. (transitive) To buy in advance.
    • “They are prebuying their retirement homes,” said John Raymond, director of community and economic development for Palm Springs.2007 May 27, Barbara E. Hernandez, “When the Desert Calls”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    prepurchase

Questions about prebought

What is prebought the simple past and past participle of?
Prebought is the simple past and past participle of prebuy.

Words near prebought in the dictionary

  1. preboot
  2. Preboreal
  3. preborn
  4. preborrowing
  5. prebottleneck
  6. prebought
  7. prebound
  8. prebrachial
  9. prebranch
  10. prebranchial
  11. prebreach

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prebought (page history and authors); prebuy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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