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CORPORATE BOND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bond issued by a corporation; carries no claim to ownership and pays no dividends but payments to bondholders have priority over payments to stockholders
Example:
a corporate bond is a safer investment than common stock in the same company
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("corporate bond" is a kind of...):
bond; bond certificate (a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal)
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