(n.) Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
(n.) That which is given generously or liberally.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
(2) Bountiful by Todd Porter and Diane Cu (Stewart, Tabori and Chang)
(3) The bounty on his head seems to confirm the NTC's preference for Gaddafi's summary execution.
(4) In a memo sent out to the NFL's 32 teams, Goodell ordered owners to make sure their clubs are not offering bounties now.
(5) The US had offered a bounty of up to $10m for information leading to his arrest, putting him in the same echelon as IBaghdadi and Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, who is believed to be based in Pakistan.
(6) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
(7) The government announced a 50m-rupee (£300,000) bounty on his head; the following year, the US priced him at $5m (£3.1m).
(8) She approached everything with Christmas-morning levels of excitement: the very fact that she was out in town, after dark, on a school night; the meal beforehand at Pizza Express, where – thrillingly – we saw people who were also going to see Jessie J and who waved at us; the unimaginable bounty of the merchandise stall; the crowd screaming; the fact that she had seen the support act, a briefly popular boyband called Lawson , on TV.
(9) Illegal bounty from the sea Facebook Twitter Pinterest The central and western Pacific is a rich fishing ground, providing an estimated 60% of the world’s tuna catch for a $7bn annual global market.
(10) And while plans for a spin-off movie based around bounty hunter Boba Fett appear to be on hold, there are increasingly powerful rumours that the greatest Star Wars icon of all time, Darth Vader himself, will appear in the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story .
(11) Vitt was aware of the bounties and, according to the league, later admitted he had "fabricated the truth" when interviewed in 2010.
(12) Disney and Lucasfilm also have a film about the youthful travails of Han Solo in the works, while a third spin-off film is rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett.
(13) Picking up, it seems, from Private Eye's fortnightly teasing, by which Gordon Brown is depicted as the Supreme Leader of some decidedly half-cock Soviet-style state, here we see a heroic communist-style family, circa 1945, gazing into the bountiful lands of New Labour's next five year plan.
(14) Never needing to work again, he ploughed his bounty into various large-scale commercial properties then sailed around the world for 14 years with his wife, Julia.
(15) – sadistic mob boss Black Mask has placed a hefty bounty on the nascent superhero's head.
(16) Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire.
(17) He has eluded authorities since his 2001 escape from prison in a laundry truck, and has a $7m bounty on his head.
(18) In the space of five days, panic-stricken authorities have launched the biggest manhunt in modern times, placed a €4m bounty on his head – dead or alive – and thrown a security cordon around the capital not seen since the 2004 Olympics.
(19) Until recently, Ray Pool was the proud owner of a bountiful, lovingly tended orchard of peaches.
(20) The Linwood Street urban farm is now in its fourth planting season, producing a bounty of corn, squash and potatoes for local residents to harvest, again for free.
Mounty
Definition:
(v.) The rise of a hawk after prey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Television advertisements, minor film roles and an appearance in Due South , the Canadian Mountie television drama, stacked up before he made a breakthrough in 2000 with the Oscar-nominated You Can Count On Me alongside Laura Linney and Matthew Broderick.
(2) He looks like a Canadian mountie who has just arrested some robot time bandits at the border.
(3) Inside the museum's hall, lined with giant totem poles, mounties genially posed for photographs with the new citizens while the Canadian air force's string quartet gently strummed the theme from Desert Island Discs like a palm court orchestra – a strange choice as desert islands are one thing Canada lacks.
(4) I have a Canadian brother-in-law and still struggle to tell the difference between Mounties and Yanks.
(5) He can come dressed as a Mountie, a fireman or – my favourite – as a gentleman.
(6) He opened the Hole in 1952 with a former Mountie as chef, and was carefully described as "G Perry-Smith MA" because restaurant-keeping was not then considered an occupation for gentlemen.
(7) Alessandro Nesta's role in tracking down Patrick Kluivert with the single-mindedness of a Mountie became one of the outstanding performances of Euro 2000, with Fabio Cannavaro not far behind him.