bonded

English

Verb

bonded

1. simple past and past participle of bond

Adjective

bonded (not comparable)

1. Secured by bond.

   bonded duties

2. Joined securely, either with adhesive, heat process or pressure.
   • 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726:

     To save weight, good use is made of resin-bonded glass fibre.

3. Synonym of bottled in bond
   • 1974, Peter Benchley, “Chapter Three”, in Jaws:

     Harry Meadows ... was in his late forties, ate too much, chain-smoked cheap cigars, drank bonded Bourbon, and was, in the words of his doctor, the Western world's leading candidate for a huge coronary infarction.

Derived terms

• bonded debt
• bonded labour
• bondedly
• bondedness
• bonded warehouse
• bonded winery
• fluid-bonded
• heterobonded
• hydrogen-bonded
• nonbonded
• spunbonded
• unbonded

 

References

• “bonded”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• debond