| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun bounty.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (bounty) | 1. Payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military.[Wordnet]. 2. The property of copious abundance.[Wordnet]. 3. Generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely.[Wordnet]. 4. A ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat.[Wordnet]. 5. Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.[Websters]. 6. Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.[Websters]. 7. That which is given generously or liberally.[Websters]. 8. A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.[Websters]. | |
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Date "BOUNTIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BOUNTIES
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Economics | A compensation paid to persons to induce certain actions. In this class are government payments to producers or exporters to strengthen their competitive position. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: bounty
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| Bounty (chocolate bar) | Bounty is a chocolate bar manufactured by Mars, Incorporated and sold in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Europe and in the Middle East. (references) | ||
| Bounty (reward) | A bounty is often offered by a group as an incentive for the accomplishment of a task by someone usually not associated with the group. Bounties are most commonly issued for the capture of a person or thing. They are typically in the form of money. Two modern examples of bounties are the bounty placed for the capture of Saddam Hussein by the United States and Microsoft's bounty for computer virus creators. Those who make a living by pursuing bounties are known as bounty hunters. (references) | ||
| Bounty Bay | Bounty Bay is an embayment of the Pacific Ocean into Pitcairn Island. (references) | ||
| Bounty Day | Bounty Day is the national holiday of Norfolk Island, celebrated annually on 8 June, in memory of the arrival of the Pitcairn Islanders on Norfolk Island in 1856. Prior to 8 June 1856, Norfolk Island had been a penal colony, but was granted by Queen Victoria to the Pitcairners as a home in 1856. (references) | ||
| Bounty hunter | 1: A hunter who kills predatory wild animals in order to collect a bounty. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Someone who pursues fugitives or criminals for whom a reward is offered. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Bounty hunter | A bounty hunter is an individual who seeks out fugitives for a monetary reward. It is legal in the United States thanks to the 1872 U.S. Supreme Court case (Taylor v. Taintor) which established that the person into whose custody a person accused of a crime is remanded as part of the accused's bail has sweeping rights to recover that person. Thus most bounty hunters are in the employ of a bail bondsman. The bounty hunter is paid a portion of the bail the fugitive initially paid, since if the fugitive successfully eludes bail the bondsman is responsible for the remainder of their bail. Thus the bounty hunter is the bail bondsman's way of ensuring his clients arrive at trial. In the United States, bounty hunters catch an estimated 30,000 bail jumpers per year. Bounty hunters are also commonly known as Bail Enforcement Agents or Fugitive Recovery Agents, which are the preferred industry terms. (references) | ||
| Bounty Hunter (truck) | Bounty Hunter is a monster truck currently racing in the USHRA Monster Jam series. (references) | ||
| Bounty Hunter's Guild | The Bounty Hunters Guild is a fictional organisation in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. (references) | ||
| Bounty Islands | The Bounty Islands (47°42'S"179 04°E') are a small group of 13 islets and numerous rocks in the south Pacific Ocean which are territorially part of New Zealand. They are located between 179o 02' and 179o 07' E, and 47o 40' and 47o 45' S, 650 km southeast of the South Island of New Zealand. The group is uninhabited by humans, but heavily populated by penguins and albatrosses. During the 19th century, it was a popular hunting ground for sealers. (references) | ||
| Bounty jumper | Bounty jumpers were men that enlisted in the Union army during the American Civil War only to collect a bounty and then leave. The draft of 1863 allowed individuals to pay a bounty to someone else to fight in their place rather than be drafted. Bounty jumpers commonly enlisted numerous times in the army, collecting many bounties. (references) | ||
| H.M.S. Bounty | A ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Minor bounty hunters in Star Wars | This article is about minor characters in the fictional Star Wars universe who are bounty hunters. (references) | ||
| Queen Anne's bounty | (Eng. Hist.), a provision made in Queen Anne's reign for augmenting poor clerical livings. Syn: Munificence; generosity; beneficence. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Queen Anne's Bounty | Queen Anne's Bounty was a fund established in 1704 for the augmentation of the incomes of the poorer clergy, the amount of which for distribution in 1890 was £176,896; it was the revenue from a tax on the Church prior to the Reformation, and which after that was appropriated by the Crown. Queen Anne's Bounty was merged with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on April 2, 1947 by the Church Commissioners Measure 1947 to form the Church Commissioners. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: bounty
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bounty hunter | Occupations | Hunts, traps, and kills predatory animals to collect bounty: Hunts quarry, using dogs, and shoots animals. Traps or poisons animals depending on environs and habits of animals sought. Removes designated parts, such as ears or tail from slain animals, using knife, to present as evidence of kill for bounty. May skin animals and treat pelts for marketing. May train dogs for hunting. May be designated according to animal hunted as Cougar Hunter (fishing & hunt.); Coyote Hunter (fishing & hunt.); Wolf Hunter (fishing & hunt.). (references) | |
| Bounty lands | Environment | Portions of the public domain given or donated as a bounty for services rendered, chiefly for military service. See 43 U.S.C.A., sec. 791. (references) | |
| Queen Anne's Bounty | Literature | A fund created out of the firstfruits and tenths, which were part of the papal exactions before the Reformation. The firstfruits are the whole first year's profits of a clerical living, and the tenths are the tenth part annually of the profits of a living. Henry VIII. annexed both these to the Crown, but Queen Anne formed them into a perpetual fund for the augmentation of poor livings and the building of parsonages. The sum equals about 14,000 a year. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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