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MUNICIPAL BOND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bond issued by a state or local government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("municipal 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "municipal bond"):
utility bond; utility revenue bond (a bond issued to finance the construction of public utility services)