bond
Subject to the tenure called bondageSubject to the tenure called bondage.
» Currency and bond markets are relatively calm.
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3 sensesSubject to the tenure called bondage.
In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.
bond fear
Examples
213 sentencesCurrency and bond markets are relatively calm.
Tom is currently out of jail on bond.
Tom and his friends got together and formed a bond.
Tom has been released on bond.
I voted for the bond issue.
Origin
From Middle English bonde (“peasant, servant, bondman”), from Old English bōnda, būnda (“hFrom Middle English bonde (“peasant, servant, bondman”), from Old English bōnda, būnda (“householder, freeman, plebeian, husband”), perhaps from Old Norse bóndi (“husbandman, householder”, literally “dweller”), or a contraction of Old English būend (“dweller, inhabitant”), both from Proto-Germanic *būwandz (“dweller”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, appear”). See also bower, boor.
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