bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒnd/
ipa: /bɑnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
Forms: form: bonds
Etymology: From Middle English bond, a variant of band, from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *bandaz, *bandiz (“band, fetter”). Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Swedish band. Doublet of Bund. Related to bind.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A document constituting 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.
examples: text: 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.
text: Many say that government and corporate bonds are a good investment to balance against a portfolio consisting primarily of stocks.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The prisoner was brought before the tribunal in iron bonds.
glosses: A physical connection which binds, a band.
examples: text: They had grown up as friends and neighbors, and not even vastly differing political views could break the bond of their friendship.
text: 1792, Edmund Burke, a letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland
a people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind.
text: Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193:
glosses: An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
examples: text: I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Moral or political duty or obligation.
examples: text: Organic chemistry primarily consists of the study of carbon bonds, in their many variations.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
examples: text: You could rely on him. His word was his bond.
text: Herbert resented his wife for subjecting him to the bonds of matrimony; he claimed they had gotten married while drunk.
glosses: A binding agreement, a covenant.
examples: text: liquor bottled in bond
glosses: The state of being stored in a bonded warehouse
examples: text: The bailiff released the prisoner as soon as the bond was posted.
text: Ellison, who is out on bond, also faces the prospect of lengthy imprisonment. Her lawyers did not comment.
ref: 2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: A bail bond.
qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: Bond paper.
examples: text: A bond of superglue adhered the teacups to the ceiling, much to the consternation of the cafe owners.
glosses: Any constraining or cementing force or material.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
synonyms: bondwork
glosses: In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
glosses: A mortgage.
topics: railways
transport
glosses: A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
Derived terms: accrual bond
baby bond
backbond
bail bond
banana bond
bastardy bond
bearer bond
bondage
bond angle
bond cleaning
bond discount
bond dissociation energy
bond distortion
bonded debt
bond energy
bonder
bond for deed
bond for general purposes
bondforming
bondholder
bondholding
bonding
bond issue
bond length
bondless
bondlike
bondmaiden
bond market
bondmate
bond order
bond paper
bond premium
bond service
bondslave
bondslavery
bondsman
bondsperson
bondstone
bond timber
bond vigilante
bottled in bond
callable bond
capital appreciation bond
carbon-carbon bond
catastrophe bond
cat bond
chemical bond
climate bond
CoCo bond
completion bond
coordinate bond
coordinate covalent bond
corona bond
corporate bond
counterbond
coupon bond
covalent bond
covered bond
dative bond
debond
delta bond
dim sum bond
disbond
disulfide bond
double bond
English bond
Eurobond
eurobond
fidelity bond
Flemish bond
flower bond
fluid-bonded
glycosidic bond
government bond
green bond
guaranteed equity bond
heartbond
heart bond
husband
hydrogen bond
interbond
ionic bond
junk bond
letter bond
liberty bond
mechanical bond
metallic bond
minibond
mortgage bond
multiple bond
nonbond
pair bond
pancake bond
peace bond
peptide bond
performance bond
perpetual bond
pi bond
polar covalent bond
pseudobond
ragbond
rebond
registered bond
senior bond
serial bond
sigma bond
single bond
sovereign bond
stereobond
stretcher bond
superbond
surety bond
three-center two-electron bond
triple bond
valence bond
victory bond
war bond
word is bond
zero coupon bond
π bond