store-bought
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- adjective
- /ˈstɔrˌbɔt/
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comprado en la tienda
- For the party, we ordered store-bought snacks to save time in the kitchen.
- store-bought food
- store-bought goods
I've grown this for two years now and it started out as a store bought garlic.
- I've grown this for two years now and it started out as a store bought garlic.
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking's version of what she just said, which is don't use store bought lady fingers.
- A lot of people might look at her as pain in the ass and you pray she doesn't want to talk when you run into her with your store bought cupcakes.
- So you can get three times as many out of a Dow as you can out of the store bought plugs.
Examples
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My clothes were not coming clean, so I have gone back to buying store-bought detergent.
Blog text (5) -
Ah, store-bought or not, they're still cookies.
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None of that store-bought stuff.
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So, this is what I merit now, a store-bought birthday cake?
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Are these store-bought donut holes, Amy?
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So I'm popping that one on top and then I'm going to cover the entire cake with the store bought frosting.
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But if you've only ever eaten store-bought pears, you may wonder what all the fuss is about.
Blog text (23) -
"No firecrackers, no fanfare—just a store-bought birthday cake with a dozen tiny candles."
Fiction book (2001) -
She decided to buy a store-bought cake instead of baking one from scratch.
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Many people prefer store-bought items for convenience rather than making everything at home.
Synonyms
Sold in shops rather than made at home
How Homemade
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word store-bought combines store ('shop') and bought ('purchased'), so it names something you bought at a shop rather than made at home.