Word Finder - bonds

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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.

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A peasant; churl.

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A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.

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Imprisonment, captivity

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The condition of goods in a bonded warehouse until duty is paid

Bonds to pay were treated as negotiable.

Let the boys fight over the few stocks and bonds Paul left, but I want to keep his fantasy.

Marsh also devised a form closely resembling that of Thomsen, inasmuch as the carbon atoms occupied the angles of a regular octahedron, and the diagonal linkages differed in nature from the peripheral, but differeng from Thomsen's since rupture of the diagonal and not peripheral bonds accompanied the reduction to hexamethylene.

There are three bonds that are older than time.

The bonds are complete.

The mating bond of the Immortals and deities and the blood bond of the demons were the two oldest bonds, unbreakable under the Immortal Code and from the laws older than the Code.

Rhyn tested the bonds of his cell again until a mage in a brown robe hurried down the hall to repair the damage.

Progress Of Geographical Discovery Exploration and geographical discovery must have started from more than one centre, and to deal justly with the matter one ought to treat of these separately in the early ages before the whole civilized world was bound together by the bonds of modern intercommunication.

The wind snapped free of its bonds, nearly tearing her from his grip with its first gust.

He broke through his bonds and gave a roar of fury.

The state is practically free from debt, the only obligation of this character being $ 1 35,5 00 in 6% bonds, payable in 1910, which were issued in behalf of the Agricultural College.

The gold reserve in the possession of the Banca dItalia on September 30th 1907 amounted to 32,240,984, and the silver reserve to 4,767,861; the foreign treasury bonds, &c. amounted to 3,324,074, making the total reserve 40,332,919; while the circulation amounted to 54,612,234.

He hadn't killed her, because of the bonds and a deal she made without knowing how important it was.

Unwilling to admit to the bonds let alone talk about them, Deidre focused on the girl.

Sami pulled her hands free and tossed both dagger and bonds, doing the same with the bonds around her ankles.

In 1896 a bill was passed by congress, which authorized the state by the issue of national bonds to assume the provincial external indebtedness.

The so-called " contracts," including a great variety of deeds, conveyances, bonds, receipts, accounts and, most important of all, the actual legal decisions given by the judges in the law courts, exist in thousands.

He struggled to free his arms from the invisible bonds, his eyesight darkening until he dropped into unconsciousness.

The bonds were negotiable, and afford us the earliest instance of the issue of government stock.

Two released Damian from the bonds and lifted him over his shoulders.

For example, Michigan, in 1837, in the first session of its state legislature, made plans for the construction of 557 miles of railway under the direct control of the state, and the governor was authorized to issue bonds for the purpose.

Another state could do so, however, and in 1904, certain creditors having given ten of their bonds to South Dakota, the case of South Dakota versus North Carolina came before the Supreme Court.

The " Mecklenburg Declaration," which it is alleged was passed on the 10th of the same month by the same committee, " dissolves the political bonds " which have connected the county with the mother country, " absolves " the citizens of that county " from all allegiance to the British Crown," declares them " a free and independent people," and abounds in other phrases which closely resemble phrases in the great Declaration of the 4th of July 1776.

In 1909 the taxable real estate and personal property was valued at $108,663,716, and the city had no floating debt; on the 1st of February 1910, there were 810,706,318 worth of bonds outstanding, and the sinking fund was 82,011,857.

We cannot suppose that there occurred, at or about the commencement of the 19th century, a breach of historical continuity of such a character that institutions, customs, laws and social conventions were suddenly swept away, the bonds of society loosened, and the state and people of England dissolved into an aggregate of competing individuals.

Most of the state institutions secured Federal charters after the establishments of the national banking system (1863-1864), but the high price of government bonds and the large amount of capital required led to a reaction, which was only partially checked by the reduction of the minimum capital to $25,000 under the currency act of the 14th of March 1900.

Later followed the appearance of lights; quasi-human voices; musical sounds, produced, it is said, without instruments; the "materialization" or presence in material form of what seemed to be human hands and faces, and ultimately of complete figures, alleged to be not those of any person present, and sometimes claimed by witnesses as deceased relatives; "psychography," or "direct writing and drawing," asserted to be done without human intervention; "spirit-photography," or the appearance on photographic plates of human and other forms when no counterpart was visible before the camera to any but specially endowed seers; 3 unfastening of cords and bonds; elongation of the medium's body; handling of red-hot coals; and the apparent passage of solids through solids without disintegration.

The militia was disbanded in 1762, and Gibbon joyfully shook off his bonds; but his literary projects were still to be postponed.

At a time when all nationalities, and at the same time all bonds of religion and national customs, were beginning to be broken up in the seeming cosmos and real chaos of the Graeco-Roman Empire, the Jews stood out like a rock in the midst of the ocean.

The state subscribed $5,000,000, which was raised on bonds sold to Nicholas Biddle, president of the United States Bank of Pennsylvania.

The Democrats were successful, and the bonds were formally repudiated in 1842.

The decision was disregarded, however, and in the same year the Planters' Bank bonds were also repudiated by popular vote.

In the midst of these unhappy surroundings religion became more inward in men of real piety and the desire grew among them to draw closer the bonds that united them to one another.

Thrice Samson scoffingly told her how he might be bound, and thrice he readily broke the bonds with which she had fettered him in his sleep; seven green bow-strings, new ropes, and even the braiding of his hair into the frame of the loom failed to secure him.

Large sums of money and games and shows were provided for the people, and, in addition, all the arrears of taxation for the last fifteen years (about £10,000,000) were cancelled and the bonds burnt in the Forum of Trajan.

In 1871 7% 30 year bonds to the extent of $350,000 were issued and in 1873 another issue of 6% 30 year bonds to the value of $925,000 was made.

By 1901 all but $2671700 of the issue of 1871 had been retired and this amount was then refunded with 3% 50 year bonds which were taken by the Educational Fund.

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.

Secondly, a medium now existed for drawing closer the bonds between English and American Congregationalists.

It just took the rest of us a while to shake off the bonds.

She sensed him testing his bonds.

During this period the bank-note circulation was increased to $161,700,000, and two mortgage banks - the National Hypothecary Bank and the Provincial Mortgage Bank (of Buenos Aires) - flooded the country with $509,000,000 of cedulas (hypothecary bonds).

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 revenues of the state come from two sources; about two-thirds from taxation and about one-third in all from the earnings of the penitentiary, from the fees collected by state officials, from the proceeds from the sale of state publications, and from the dividends from stock and bonds.

Then the number of single bonds is 2n - m-2p, and the heat of combustion becomes H,=nE+m77+p(2X - Y).

If triple bonds, q in number, occur also, and the energy of such a bond be Z, the equation for H becomes H = nE-+-mn -1-p(2X - Y) +q(3X - Z).

By experiment it is found that the thermal effect of a double bond is much less than the effect of two single bonds, while a triple bond has a much smaller effect than three single bonds.

It also acts as a chromogenic centre when double bonds or ethylenic linkages are present, as in fluorene ketone or fluorenone.

While very many coloured substances must obviously contain this grouping, yet in many cases it is necessary to assume a simple intermolecular change, while in others a more complex rearrangement of bonds is necessary.

She would favour them, but on the distinct condition that nothing was to be done to weaken the bonds of authority.