GOVERNMENT BOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does government bond mean? 

• GOVERNMENT BOND (noun)
  The noun GOVERNMENT BOND has 1 sense:

1. a bond that is an IOU of the United States Treasury; considered the safest security in the investment world

  Familiarity information: GOVERNMENT BOND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOVERNMENT BOND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bond that is an IOU of the United States Treasury; considered the safest security in the investment world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("government 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 "government bond"):

savings bond (non-negotiable government bond; cannot be bought and sold once the original purchase is made)

Treasury; Treasury obligations (negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time)