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单词 bounty hunter
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Definition of bounty hunter in English:

bounty hunter

noun
  • 1A person who pursues a criminal or fugitive for whom a reward is offered.

    the film follows a bounty hunter who is caught in a Wyoming blizzard with his female prisoner
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was sentenced to 124 years imprisonment and was later caught by a bounty hunter and returned to the US.
    • The movie features fast cars, a psychotic with road rage, a bounty hunter, and an attractive blonde.
    • As a policeman, he's expected to inform the FBI, but instead he becomes a bounty hunter.
    • He appears to go about his business untroubled by policemen, or bounty hunters.
    • Cairy had been a bounty hunter long enough to know that cops, even the rare few who tried to help, always got in the way.
    • Shortly after our arrival we came into contact with a bounty hunter, one seeking a reward for the return of Jenna.
    • The bounty hunter is given his final assignment - to secure and bring back his boss's estranged son, Travis, from the heart of South America.
    • The bounty hunter is a State proxy and can thus use police powers.
    • After college I worked for an old family friend as a junior bail bondsman, and then I spent some time as a bounty hunter.
    • The film opens about five years after the events in Pitch Black, and Riddick is on the run from bounty hunters again.
    1. 1.1 A person who hunts wild animals in order to collect a reward offered for killing them.
      livestock owners say the state's efforts to reduce the predator population have fallen short and they want to give bounty hunters a shot
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many of the bounty hunters use snare traps, which kill an irresponsible number of grizzly bears, elk, and moose, as well as wolves.
      • It's unlikely bounty hunters would be required to turn in the animals' heads.
      • North America was once home to as many as 2 million gray wolves, but by the 1930s, fur traders, bounty hunters and government agents had poisoned, trapped and shot them to near extinction.
      • One hundred years ago, legions of bounty hunters were scouring the swamps and forests of Florida, looking for songbirds to adorn society ladies' hats.
      • Over the course of American history, livestock owners, Native Americans, bounty hunters, animal rights activists, and wilderness enthusiasts have disputed and revised the meaning of wolf skulls.
 
 

Definition of bounty hunter in US English:

bounty hunter

nounˈboun(t)ē ˌhən(t)ər
  • 1A person who pursues a criminal or fugitive for whom a reward is offered.

    the film follows a bounty hunter who is caught in a Wyoming blizzard with his female prisoner
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As a policeman, he's expected to inform the FBI, but instead he becomes a bounty hunter.
    • He appears to go about his business untroubled by policemen, or bounty hunters.
    • After college I worked for an old family friend as a junior bail bondsman, and then I spent some time as a bounty hunter.
    • Shortly after our arrival we came into contact with a bounty hunter, one seeking a reward for the return of Jenna.
    • He was sentenced to 124 years imprisonment and was later caught by a bounty hunter and returned to the US.
    • The film opens about five years after the events in Pitch Black, and Riddick is on the run from bounty hunters again.
    • The bounty hunter is a State proxy and can thus use police powers.
    • Cairy had been a bounty hunter long enough to know that cops, even the rare few who tried to help, always got in the way.
    • The bounty hunter is given his final assignment - to secure and bring back his boss's estranged son, Travis, from the heart of South America.
    • The movie features fast cars, a psychotic with road rage, a bounty hunter, and an attractive blonde.
    1. 1.1 A person who hunts wild animals in order to collect a reward offered for killing them.
      livestock owners say the state's efforts to reduce the predator population have fallen short and they want to give bounty hunters a shot
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Over the course of American history, livestock owners, Native Americans, bounty hunters, animal rights activists, and wilderness enthusiasts have disputed and revised the meaning of wolf skulls.
      • Many of the bounty hunters use snare traps, which kill an irresponsible number of grizzly bears, elk, and moose, as well as wolves.
      • It's unlikely bounty hunters would be required to turn in the animals' heads.
      • North America was once home to as many as 2 million gray wolves, but by the 1930s, fur traders, bounty hunters and government agents had poisoned, trapped and shot them to near extinction.
      • One hundred years ago, legions of bounty hunters were scouring the swamps and forests of Florida, looking for songbirds to adorn society ladies' hats.
 
 
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