I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bond/currency/commodity etc trader
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To the surprise of many Wall Street traders, the dollar rose yesterday.
bonded warehouse
bonds/ties of friendship (= things that connect friends )
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They were united by deep bonds of friendship.
junk bond
premium bond
savings bond
strengthen ties/bonds/links
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He wants to strengthen ties with the West.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
convertible
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The convertible bond will be listed in Paris.
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The one-time gain reflected a drop in financing costs after the conversion of 836 million francs in convertible bonds .
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It also intends to issue a convertible bond to raise more cash to put towards paying off debts of around euro60 billion.
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Nintendo, a video-games maker, pulled its issue of convertible bonds .
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So the convertible bond should be classified as a liability.
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The most striking thing about the boom in issues of convertible and warrant bonds in 1987-89 was how many firms were involved.
corporate
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However, for income-seeking investors, corporate bonds are a much more attractive bet.
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But in the corporate bond market, some say the government shutdown is putting a drag on issuance.
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And the faster corporate bonds are issued, the speedier will be the development of an active secondary market.
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By then junk bonds were 25 percent of the corporate bond market.
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Unsecured loan stocks are corporate bonds that are not secured by either a fixed or a floating charge.
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The cowboys traded bonds , corporate and government bonds.
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Spreads between corporate junk bonds and Treasury bonds have risen to their widest since the recession of 1990-91.
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Demand for most bonds is high because investors keep putting money into corporate bond funds.
municipal
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One involved a $ 396 million municipal bond deal for Pennsylvania.
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Stay away from long-term municipal bonds .
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Chase Manhattan stopped underwriting and trading municipal bonds about five years ago.
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Usually, a state like Connecticut sells tax-exempt municipal bonds .
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But municipal bonds issued by towns where incinerators are under development are likely to be threatened by the elimination of the subsidies.
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Over the years Merrill Lynch, the municipal bond sellers, unloaded most of the bonds for Citron.
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He managed over $ 500 million in municipal and corporate bonds for Mackenzie.
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Selling municipal bonds in Atlanta was unthinkably wretched.
strong
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The strong bonds in diamond are also responsible for many of its non-abrasive uses.
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They learn styles of communication meant to create strong bonds between parents and children.
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For example, the strong bonds allow the atoms in diamonds to vibrate at very high frequencies.
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We should also not make the rather simplistic assumption that co-residence implies a strong bond between relatives.
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During the weeks directly afterwards he confided his distress in Keith Gregory and it established a strong bond between them.
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And when there are children they will be tied together by that strongest of all bonds .
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He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material.
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The old man and the young boy go fishing and a strong bond develops between them.
■ NOUN
funds
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One criticism of the bond funds is the relatively high level of charges.
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Some bond funds performed far better than others last year.
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When interest rates drop, the value of short-duration bond funds can drop too.
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And no wonder new purchases of bond funds are a pittance compared with what people shovel into stock funds.
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How much should investors know about how risky their bond funds are or will be?
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Demand for most bonds is high because investors keep putting money into corporate bond funds .
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Demand for junk bonds has been strong because investors continue to pour cash into corporate bond funds .
government
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The repatriated funds will have to be invested in Government bonds for a number of years.
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The dollar was little changed against the yen during Tokyo trading, and the government bond market barely moved.
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Now, three-fifths of insurers' assets are bonds - a quarter of them government bonds.
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Indeed, outside the immediate government bond market, few people in the Wall Street community know Mr Hirsch.
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But they were not so dire as to scare investors into dumping government bonds .
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Bills of exchange: Treasury, local authority and certain commercial bills. Government bonds with less than a year to maturity.
hydrogen
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Glutamic acid 170 forms the final main-chain hydrogen bond in the molecule.
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Glu115 also forms hydrogen bonds to His118 and to Asp84, and Glu238 hydrogen-bonds to Glu204.
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This allows hydrogen bonds to reform.
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Protein residues in contact are also shown, with hydrogen bonds as dotted lines.
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Distortions due to the formation of hydrogen bonds are usually smaller than those due to co-ordination to metal ions.
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There are no main-chain hydrogen bonds to the metal ligand side chains.
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For clarity, the three hydrogen bonds mentioned in the text are not illustrated.
issue
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Debt funding worth £690m for this original acquisition was securitised through a bond issue by Nomura shortly after privatisation.
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Jokes about the latest bond issue were in.
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Names had hoped that Lloyd's might help by raising money through a bond issue .
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The bond issues will mean another $ 2. 08 per month.
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Lower interest rates also make the rate of return on bonds more attractive than bank deposits and new bond issues .
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New bond issues rose as interest rates fell during the last three months of 1995.
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Just two years ago, voters rejected similar bond issues .
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With everybody cheering, his bond issue went through easily, and work was beginning.
junk
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Spreads between corporate junk bonds and Treasury bonds have risen to their widest since the recession of 1990-91.
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The interest rates on junk bonds are higher because they are considered more likely to default. 12.
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The fortunes of Levi Strauss have been restored by junk bonds arranged by Salomon Brothers.
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Anyone can buy be-cause anyone can borrow using junk bonds .
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This moral hazard sent them lending billions to property developers and investing billions in junk bonds .
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In 1984 our two-man junk bond department spoke at a Salomon Brothers seminar for several hundred savings and loan managers.
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Yield spreads of junk bonds over Treasuries have narrowed a touch, though they remain wide.
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Despite losses in the Treasury market, junk bond prices maintained a 1 / 4-point gain, traders said.
market
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Some are focussing on areas such as swaps and derivatives, which can give them an edge in the primary bond market .
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The guaranteed income bond market was thrown into confusion.
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That is the kind of world that the bond market , dominated by lenders, loves.
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The bond market , a favorite safe haven during the markets tumult, lost its gloss as equities showed signs of life.
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Will the bond market deliver the Fed from tightening?
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In particular, the bond markets-high-yield and investment grade-showed signs of life last week.
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He was the guru of the bond market and also the conscience of our firm.
measure
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The last time the school district had a local bond measure on a ballot was in 1974.
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The bond measure needs a two-thirds majority to pass.
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Opponents of the bond measures , including State Sen.
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Voters turned down bond measures for a new jail in 1994 and 1996.
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And any decision is ultimately dependent on passage of a bond measure , again most likely requiring a two-thirds majority.
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In 1994, voters said no to a proposed $ 1 billion bond measure .
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Voters approved two bond measures to pay for the seismic retrofit, interior renovations and modernizing the electrical systems.
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The contracts will guarantee that specific maintenance and construction projects will be funded if a local bond measure passes.
mortgage
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These loans would be transformed into mortgage bonds .
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They were no longer trading mortgage bonds , but the raw material for mortgage bonds: home loans.
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Translation: Salomon could dictate the rules of the mortgage bond trading game as it went along.
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Michael Mortara became the head of mortgage trading at Goldman Sachsthe leader in mortgage bond trading in the first half of 1988.
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The home loans underpinned mortgage bonds .
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Ginnie Mae and mortgage bonds funds, less than 4 percent; and general bond funds, 6. 05 percent.
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Any prepayments were profits to the owner of the mortgage bond .
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Beneath them in their corporations are thousands of people who now make their living in mortgage bonds .
premium
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Capital Choice, a single premium bond .
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Savings include cash, money in bank and building society accounts, national savings certificates and accounts, premium bonds and shares.
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Any small inheritance, gift, premium bond prize or money from occasional jobs should not be included.
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Also, premium bonds stay valid for every draw instead of the stake being lost.
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These include savings certificates, index-linked accounts, savings bonds for children and pensioners and premium bonds.
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National Savings stamps or certificates, premium bonds . 4.
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Winnings from betting, football pools, and premium bonds .
price
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Usually there is an inverse relationship between bond prices and interest rate movements in the economy.
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The action sparked a rally in bond prices and the Dow Jones closed 14.96 up at 2597.13..
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If interest rates fall, then the bond price will rise.
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This means that the following relationship holds between modified duration and bond prices .
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Despite losses in the Treasury market, junk bond prices maintained a 1 / 4-point gain, traders said.
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This is interest rate risk, the risk that bond prices will fall if market interest rates rise.
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A fall in bond yields, which move inversely to bond prices , make stocks a more attractive investment compared with bonds.
trader
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He pushed his way on to the trading floor and became a bond trader .
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He was thought by many within Salomon to be the best bond trader on Wall Street.
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At any given moment on the trading floor billions of dollars were being risked by bond traders .
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Good bond traders had fast brains and enormous stamina.
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A large corporate bond trader was waiting for me, like an unfed house pet, when I returned to the office.
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I found imagining myself as a bond salesman only marginally more plausible than imagining myself as a bond trader .
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Salomon bond traders knew about fools because that was their job.
treasury
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In 1793 the government gave permission to convert entailed property into treasury bonds .
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Falling Treasury bond yields also boosted stocks.
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Spreads between corporate junk bonds and Treasury bonds have risen to their widest since the recession of 1990-91.
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Yields on benchmark 30-year Treasury bonds dropped to 6. 06 percent from 6. 15 percent on Friday.
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Since February, the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond has risen to nearly 7 percent from less than 6 percent.
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When the federal government runs a deficit, it borrows the extra money by selling more Treasury bonds to the public.
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The benchmark 30-year Treasury bond dropped by nearly a full point just minutes after news of the budget problems reached traders.
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That happened once 10 years ago when the 30-year Treasury bond returned 34 % in 1985 and nearly 26 % in 1986.
yield
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Bundesbank officials have been fretting in public about rising bond yields and the weaker D-mark.
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A fall in bond yields , which move inversely to bond prices, make stocks a more attractive investment compared with bonds.
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Bonds soared, as the 10-year government bond yield fell 9 basis points to 8. 24.
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Banks fell as benchmark 30-year Treasury bond yields climbed to 6. 17 percent from 6. 04 percent Monday.
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Financial stocks dropped on concern that Treasury bonds yields are headed up, squeezing banks profit margins.
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Benchmark 30-year bond yields dipped to 6. 15 percent from 6. 19 percent yesterday.
■ VERB
break
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In fact, breaking one of the bonds , by pulling an electron out of it, requires a lot of energy.
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But Paris broke that sacred bond .
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This dissolves hair by breaking the sulphur bonds of the keratin, the protein from which hair is made.
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These byproducts also break some of the bonds that hold gum tissue together.
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All archaebacteria thrive in intense heat, and most derive their energy from breaking chemical bonds .
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The King has disclaimed his love for his offspring and therefore broken the family bond that Cordelia speaks of.
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The type and irregularity of fracture bears a complex relation to the breaking of bonds in directions that cut across crystallographic planes.
buy
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Vodafone's shares fell on fears that hedge funds that had bought the bonds were short-selling Vodafone.
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No longer did Salomon Brothers traders buy bonds at twelve and then make the market believe they were worth twenty.
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When the public buy the bonds or bills they will draw money from their banks.
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The $ 53 billion fund raised cash and bought long-term bonds aggressively.
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This is the point where everyone believes interest rates will rise, and therefore no one wants to buy bonds .
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He had bought the bond at sixty; now he was being paid off at a hundred.
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So the easiest way for insurers to win regulatory bouquets is to sell equities and buy bonds .
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Invest in a stock mutual fund. Buy a short-term bond fund.
fix
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National Savings For a more guaranteed but potentially less bountiful return, there are a number of fixed-rate bonds .
form
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The valency of an atom in a covalent molecule is the number of electrons shared by the atom in forming the bond .
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All the people in my company are good at forming special bonds with suppliers and customers.
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Glu115 also forms hydrogen bonds to His118 and to Asp84, and Glu238 hydrogen-bonds to Glu204.
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We believe that part of this development is a process by which parents form bonds to their children.
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Carbon has four electrons that it uses to form chemical bonds .
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We also believe that certain settings and certain kinds of support can help parents form these bonds and nurture their children successfully.
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In general, as the difference in electronegativity between two elements forming a bond decreases, so does the bond enthalpy.
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Again, he learns to reconnect by forming a bond with a young boy.
hold
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Because of the need for both liquidity and profitability, banks tend to hold bills and bonds of varying maturities and yields.
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Another disadvantage of yield to maturity is that investors do not typically hold bonds to maturity.
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Torres was ordered held without bond in the Guadalupe County Jail.
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Even after allowing for inflation, they should have made 16.1 per cent from holding Treasury bonds .
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Simply buy and hold good bonds until maturity.
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The current yield is used to estimate the cost of or profit from holding a bond .
pay
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Dumbfounded bankers learned that the government would not pay out on its bonds .
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With bonding authority, you can sell bonds for projects and then pay off the bonds with a local property tax.
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Because the firm is incorporated, the interest it pays on the bond is tax-deductible.
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But they must pay for the bond in dollars, so the dollar gets pushed up higher.
sell
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Much to William Pitt's disgust Cator sold the bond by public auction to a solicitor called Yates.
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To reassure investors, some utilities have taken to selling bonds with insurance, once an unusual tactic for utility bonds.
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They attempt to build them up by selling bonds .
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A trader could buy or sell as many bonds as he thought appropriate without asking.
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Life insurers used to be able to show any profit from selling a bond in the year in which they traded it.
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It had planned to sell the bonds today, underwriters said, but decided to wait because yields have risen recently.
strengthen
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He still believed that lovemaking was a sign and a strengthening of the sacramental bond between two people.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's almost inevitable that the client will form a very close bond with the therapist.
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My word is my bond .
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Over the years the two men had developed deep bonds of friendship.
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The bond between mother and child is extremely strong.
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the bond market
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The mountain community is held together by deep historical and religious bonds.
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U.S. savings bonds
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because bond strengths may differ along the various crystallographic axes, hardness may also vary slightly in direction.
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Glu115 also forms hydrogen bonds to His118 and to Asp84, and Glu238 hydrogen-bonds to Glu204.
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He felt a peculiar bond with these men and women, though most of them he barely knew.
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Obon is for closing off unfinished business, for restoring bonds, for healing and remembering.
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She was sharp-eyed and even sharper of tongue, but the bond of affection between them was unbreakable.
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The rate of interest on the bonds is quoted net of basic rate tax.
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These can be minimised by writing the bond under a suitable trust provided by the insurance company.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
together
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And if so, what would that tell about the way the carbon skeleton is bonded together ?
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Upper and sole unit were then bonded together , not stitched and pegged, as in traditional boot construction.
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They show how architects, furniture makers and artists bonded together in common cause.
■ NOUN
billion
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The government shutdown also may delay a possible $ 1 billion to $ 2 billion global bond offering from Walt Disney Co.
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The central bank also bought about 200 billion yen in government bonds outright.
million
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Ohio -- $ 120 million of general obligation bonds , via a Banc One Capital Corp. group.
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The company cut its financing costs by 63 million francs, by converting 836 million francs of convertible bonds to equity.
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The plan calls for an $ 18 million bond issue in June 2002 and a $ 19 million bond issue in 2005.
percent
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The six firms account for about 90 percent of the Brady bond volume.
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The benchmark 8 percent government bond due 2006 rose to 106. 54 from 106. 34 in early trading.
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The Ginnie Mae 8 percent bonds prepaid at a constant prepayment rate of 9. 8 percent in December.
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A state might replace its tax-exempt bonds paying 6 percent interest with bonds paying 5 percent interest.
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Glaxo, meantime, is selling $ 500 million of 6. 125 percent 10-year bonds .
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P is ahead 15 percent , bonds up 8 percent.
revenue
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Jacksonville, Fla. -- $ 60 million of water and sewer revenue bonds , via a PaineWebber Inc. group.
stock
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Derivatives are contracts whose value is tied to the value of another asset such as a stock , bond or index.
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Fund managers have few strong convictions about the stock or bond markets for 1996.
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People in the upper brackets of income have the opportunity to participate in the stock and bond markets.
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A mutual fund is a portfolio of stocks or bonds that is jointly owned by a large number of investors.
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If only it could work that way with stock and bond funds, too!
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Some New York securities traders blamed the survey, released Tuesday, for the afternoon decline of stock and bond markets.
■ VERB
sell
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Only Young Broadcasting sold bonds today.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
male/female bonding
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Do a little female bonding - go shopping or out for a big lunch with a friend.
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A whole series of male clubs sprang up which emphasised the elements of male bonding .
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Anticipated here is that always unstable disjunction between identification and desire upon which male bonding depends.
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First, the male - female bonding is weakened owing to the low frequency of male interactions with most of his female companions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And if so, what would that tell about the way the carbon skeleton is bonded together?
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Teammates who were strangers before the party are instantly bonded, and victory is celebrated with fists-in-the-air exaltation.