Word Finder - bond

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Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.

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A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.

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Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

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A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.

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(often in the plural) A physical connection which binds, a band.

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The prisoner was brought before the tribunal in iron bonds.

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An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.

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They had grown up as friends and neighbors, and not even vastly differing political views could break the bond of their friendship.

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Moral or political duty or obligation.

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A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.

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Organic chemistry primarily consists of the study of carbon bonds, in their many variations.

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A binding agreement, a covenant.

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Herbert resented his wife for subjecting him to the bonds of matrimony; he claimed they had gotten married while drunk.

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A bail bond.

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The bailiff released the prisoner as soon as the bond was posted.

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Any constraining or cementing force or material.

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A bond of superglue adhered the teacups to the ceiling, much to the consternation of the cafe owners.

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In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying.

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In Scotland, a mortgage.

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A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.

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To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.

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The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage.

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To cause to adhere (one material with another).

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The children bonded their snapshots to the scrapbook pages with mucilage.

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To form a chemical compound with.

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Under unusual conditions, even gold can be made to bond with other elements.

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To guarantee or secure a financial risk.

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The contractor was bonded with a local underwriter.

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To form a friendship or emotional connection.

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The men had bonded while serving together in Vietnam.

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To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.

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To lay bricks in a specific pattern.

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To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).

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A house's distribution panel should always be bonded to the grounding rods via a panel bond.

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To bail out by means of a bail bond.

The bond between mates is strong.

The bond brings you together.

I don't want to bond with a child only to have it taken away.

Their bond felt permanent, and she had no idea what to do about it.

The bond creates more than dependency; it gives you a helluva lot of influence over him.

The bond I shared with Gabriel.

The bond between them was weakening with him.

I kept you quiet long enough for the bond to stick.

They were the bond of union between Church and state.

Music, pornography, art, James Bond movies and heroin are all in their different ways forms of virtual strawberry cheesecake.

As head of a party, dependent for its position in power on the Bond's support, his position was undoubtedly a trying one.

Speaking of Bond, this film does seem to smell a little of a spy caper.

They shared a rare bond, and felt blessed to have each other.

Mr Hofmeyr and the Bond were loud in their denunciation of him, nor can it be denied that the circumstances of the raid greatly embittered againstEngland the Dutch element in Cape Colony, and influenced their subsequent attitude towards the Transvaal Boers.

Gabriel gave up his soul to help Rhyn and would do it again, especially seeing how strong their bond had become.

They said …I'm his preordained mate, a bond that can't be broken.

We've always had that bond.

Once she gave up her bond and accepted another, she belonged to him.

Because your bond will reappear seven days after you broke it.

He also co-operated with Sir Alfred Milner, and used his influence to restrain the Bond.

In June, Mr Schreiner, whose recent support of Sir Alfred Milner had incensed many of his Bond followers, resigned in consequence of the refusal of some of his colleagues to support the disfranchisement bill which he was prepared, in accordance with the views of the home government, to introduce for the punishment of Cape rebels.

Thus the user can measure bond lengths, interatomic distances, angles between bonds and planes; create centroids and more.

He couldn't forget the energy of the bond that tore through when he held her on the roof.

Judging by the strength of their bond, she'd be more than a duty to him.

The softness of her body combined with the power of their bond jarred him.

He rested his hand on the base of her neck, the warm energy of their bond moving through him.

From the distance, she felt the bond beckoning her to him.

Her body ceased shaking, and her confusion faded, replaced by the hum of the bond between them.

She stood in the warm silence, senses intoxicated by their bond, his scent and body.

She wanted to tell him to leave, but whatever bond existed between them, it filled her with warmth and energy that quelled the meltdown she was about to have.

She felt no motherly bond to the kid huddled beside her in a thick coat despite how adorable he was.

Rhyn already broke their bond, unless … she had to break it, too.

Rhyn.s warm power filled her as she drew on their bond as mates, and the portal opened.

I release you of our bond, Rhyn.

She.d broken their bond.

Whatever otherworldly bond connected them prevented her from moving away.

The short time together had been enough to remind her just how strong the bond was between them.

Even though he'd just met her, the bond between them was as strong as his father told him it would be.

She was scared of him still, and he knew it was their bond as dhjan and nishani that frightened her.

For a moment they looked into each other's eyes, and the bond was there again ... briefly.

By means of bond labour roads and bridges were con structed, and a route opened into the interior beyond Rise of the Blue Mountains.

The object of sharing the meal with the god was to renew the blood bond.

On the Congo, if a man commits a murder, the community votes whether he shall die or be expelled; if the latter, a victim is killed, of which all must partake; but this is not, as might be imagined, a case of Robertson Smith's piaculum for the re-establishment of the tribal bond; for the criminal is driven out of the community.

The bonded debt of the state on the 31st of December 1908 amounted to $550,000, of which the state held an irredeemable bond for $380,000; the actual redeemable bonded debt of $170,000 was due to the investment of the school and university funds in the bonds of the state.

The Judaean narratives do not allow us to fill the gap or to determine whether Judaean policy under the regent Jehoiada would be friendly or hostile to Israel, or whether Judaean nobles may have severed the earlier bond of union.

It is certain that whatever merits the Cretan laws may have possessed for the internal regulation of the different cities, they had the one glaring defect, that they made no provision for any federal bond or union among them, or for the government of the island as a whole.

On the 11th of June, five weeks before the fall of Stirling, he met Lamberton at Cambuskenneth and entered into a secret bond by which they were to support each other against all adversaries and undertake nothing without consulting together.

The first part of this claim was refunded by a new bond issue, also taken by the Educational Fund, the second was paid from an Indian war claim of $692,946, received from the United States government in 1902, when $132,000 bonds of 1857, held by the United States government, were also extinguished.

Thus he based Judaism on love, not on knowledge; love was the bond between God and man, and man's fundamental duty was love as expressed in obedience to God's will.

The second part of the act provides that if any person or persons, bodies politic and corporate, for any sum of money, reward, gift, profit or benefit, directly or indirectly, or for or by reason of any promise, agreement, grant, bond, covenant or other assurances.