government bond

1. 1.

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

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Questions about government bond

What does government bond mean?

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

Is government bond a common word?

government 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.