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noun, plural -ties.

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.

a generous gift.

generosity in giving.

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Origin:
1200–50; Middle English b(o)unte < Anglo-French, Old French bonte, Old French bontet < Latin bonitāt- (stem of bonitās) goodness. See boon², -ity

Related forms

boun·ty·less, adjective

Synonyms
1. See bonus. 2. present, benefaction. 3. munificence, liberality, charity, beneficence.

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Not so long ago the ocean's bounty seemed to have no limit.

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These researchers bore alarming news about the ocean's bounty.

The foundation might then auction the rights to the bounty to ensure that the vaccinations are performed at the lowest cost.

Not so long ago the ocean's bounty seemed to have no limit.

But the researchers hope the project will provide a bounty of data while helping volunteers connect with one another.

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The natural bounty of those places made the occasional hurricane or tsunami tolerable.

To avoid waste you have to preserve the bounty somehow.

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It turned out that she was a bounty hunter going after mountain lions and coyotes.

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The chancellor's bounty will do little for them because haulage rates will be further cut.

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Some argue that it too is testing the limits of geology's bounty.

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In his own way he had been a public servant-a combination bounty hunter and prosecutor who.

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The rationale behind the bounty is that the oncologist loses a patient and should be compensated for lost income.

The bounty on the head of this desk is unknown, as it was a one-off custom job.

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More than a hundred years ago the city offered a bounty to ships which would bring to the port rock ballast instead of.

Ideally, signature gatherers should not be bounty hunters interested in money, but volunteers believing in a cause.

Hornocker's mountain lion findings countered two key myths that had driven the bounty hunting of the animal.

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Take a winter walk with your family and gather nature's bounty to create your own decorations.

Here, life is shaped by the sea and the bounty it brings.

Violence is common in the delta, where local groups use force to demand a greater share of the bounty.

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World English Dictionary

bounty (ˈbaʊntɪ)

—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)

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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]

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