noun
- Payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military.
- synonyms: premium
- The property of copious abundance.
- synonyms: amplitude, bountifulness
- Generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely.
- synonyms: bounteousness
- 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.
- synonyms: H. M. S. Bounty
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