bounty
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ti noun, plural boun·ties.
1.
a premium or reward, especially one offered by a government: There was a bounty on his head. Some states offer a bounty for dead coyotes.
2.
a generous gift.
3.
generosity in giving.
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | generosity in giving to others; liberality |
| 2. | a generous gift; something freely provided |
| 3. | a payment made by a government, as, formerly, to a sailor on enlisting or to a soldier after a campaign |
| 4. | any reward or premium: a bounty of 20p for every rat killed |
| [C13 (in the sense: goodness): from Old French bontet, from Latin bonitās goodness, from bonus good] | |
| Bounty (ˈbaʊntɪ) | |
| —n | |
| a British naval ship commanded by Captain William Bligh, which was on a scientific voyage in 1789 between Tahiti and the West Indies when her crew mutinied | |
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Word Origin & History
bounty
mid-13c., "generosity," from O.Fr. bonte "goodness" (12c., Mod.Fr. bonté), from L. bonitatem (nom. bonitas) "goodness," from bonus "good" (see bene-). Sense of "gift bestowed by a sovereign or the state" led to extended senses of "gratuity to a military recruit" (1702)
and "reward for killing or taking a criminal or enemy" (1764).
"I do ... promise, that there shall be paid ... the following several and respective premiums and Bounties for the prisoners and Scalps of the Enemy Indians that shall be taken or killed ...." ["Papers of the Governor of Pennsylvania," 1764]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Second: offer a bounty to the world's computer users for every proven violator they turn in.
Industrialized farming has relied on nitrogen fertilizer for its bounty.
And, given their delicate nature, clathrates tend to release their methane bounty during these landslides.
At a lower level, bean-counters are becoming a bit less blind to nature's bounty.
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