Bond

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.

Many say that government and corporate bonds are a good investment to balance against a portfolio consisting primarily of stocks.

The prisoner was brought before the tribunal in iron bonds.

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

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.

Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea.

I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.

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

You could rely on him. His word was his bond.

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

liquor bottled in bond

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

Ellison, who is out on bond, also faces the prospect of lengthy imprisonment. Her lawyers did not comment.

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

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

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

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

The contractor was bonded with a local underwriter.

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).

The men had bonded while serving together in Vietnam.

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

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.

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.

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.