corporate bond

1. 1.

   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

   “a corporate bond is a safer investment than common stock in the same company”

   Broaderbond

Questions about corporate bond

What does corporate bond mean?

corporate bond means "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".

Is corporate bond a common word?

corporate bond is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.