Definition of "bond"

bond¹

/bɑnd/

noun
plural bonds
1. (law) 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.
2. (finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
3. 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.
4. (often in the plural) A physical connection which binds, a band.
5. An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
  Quotations
  a people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind.
  1792, Edmund Burke, a letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland
  Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea.
  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, […], part I, page 193
6. Moral or political duty or obligation.
  Quotations
  I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.
  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, [Act I, scene i]
7. (chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
8. A binding agreement, a covenant.
9. (law) A bail bond.
  Quotations
  Ellison, who is out on bond, also faces the prospect of lengthy imprisonment. Her lawyers did not comment.
  2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian‎
10. Bond paper.
11. Any constraining or cementing force or material.
12. (construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
13. (Scotland) A mortgage.
14. (railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.

bond²

/bɑnd/

verb
third-person singular simple present bonds, present participle bonding, simple past and past participle bonded
1. (transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
2. (transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
3. (transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.
4. (transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
  Quotations
  The existence of such [criminal] records can and has been a barrier to men who wish to obtain a job that requires bonding (such as working in a bank).
  1979 April 7, David Brill, “BPL Arrests: A Year Later”, in Gay Community News, page 1
5. To form a friendship or emotional connection.
6. (transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
7. (transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
8. (transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
9. To bail out by means of a bail bond.
  Quotations
  In the August election of 1874 I bonded out of jail eighteen colored men that had been in there, and there has not one of them been tried yet, and they never will be.
  1877, Report No. 704 of proceedings In the Senate of the United States, 44th Congress, 2nd Session, page 642
  In jail for killing a man, Procter Lewis is placed in a cell where he is faced with a choice: he can be bonded out of jail by Roger Medlow, the owner of the plantation where he lives, or he can serve his time in the penitentiary.
  1995, Herman Beavers, Wrestling angels into song: the fictions of Ernest J. Gaines, page 28
  And no, you cannot drive her down to the bank to see if her new AFDC card is activated and drop her kids off at school for her because she didn't think to get her car before he bonded out of jail.
  2001, Elaine J. Lawless, Women escaping violence: empowerment through narrative, page xxi

bond³

/bɑnd/

noun
plural bonds
1. A peasant; churl.
2. A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
adjective
comparative more bond, superlative most bond
1. Subject to the tenure called bondage.
2. In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
3. Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.

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