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• bund
  bund

  noun

  an embankment or an embanked quay, often providing a promenade.
• Bund
  Bund

  noun

  a short form of “German-American Volksbund,” a pro-Nazi organization in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.

bund

¹ American  

[buhnd] / bʌnd /

noun

1. an embankment or an embanked quay, often providing a promenade.

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Bund ² American  

[boond, buhnd, boont] / bʊnd, bʌnd, bʊnt /

noun

• Bunds,
  plural
• Bünde
  plural

1. a short form of “German-American Volksbund,” a pro-Nazi organization in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.

2. (often lowercase) an alliance or league, especially a political society.

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Bund ¹ British  

/ bʊnd, bʊnt /

noun

1. (sometimes not capital) a federation or league

2. short for German American Bund , an organization of US Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s and 1940s

3. an organization of socialist Jewish workers in Russia founded in 1897

4. the confederation of N German states, which existed from 1867–71

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bund ² British  

/ bʌnd /

noun

1. an embankment; dyke

2. an embanked road or quay

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Bundist
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Bunds
  plural
• Bünde
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bund¹

1805–15; < Hindi band < Persian: dam, levee; akin to bind, bond ¹

Origin of Bund²

< German: association, league

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Example Sentences

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bund Bund Bunds

The pressure on France has investors obsessing over a level known as “the spread,” or the extra yield on French bonds compared with the bloc’s safest investment: the German bund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Germany’s 10-year bund yield, a proxy for risk-free rates in the eurozone, was just shy of 3%, the highest since 2007.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

Fairhurst suggest this earth bund would need a fence on top to stop people getting in to the rock trap area.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

Two-year German bund yields fell almost 8 basis points to 3.177%.

From Reuters ● Jul. 19, 2023

Or “TV bund karo” means “turn off the TV.”

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

Ten-year German Bund yields rise 2.6 bps to 3.371%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The 10-year German Bund yield declined 1.7 basis points to 3.407%, according to Tradeweb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Freely traded and considered virtually risk-free, the Bund has a haven status that is "not being called into question", Frederik Ducrozet of the Swiss bank Pictet told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Ten-year Treasury and German Bund yields slid to multiweek lows in early European trade on Thursday as bond investors absorbed higher-than-expected U.S. inflation data that had prompted a temporary but sharp bond selloff on Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Was a member of the German American Bund.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Treasurys and German Bunds due to falls in equities and concerns about the sustainability of debt-funded AI investments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The spread between the 10-year yield on French OATs and German Bunds amounts to the extra payment investors demand to hold French instead of German bonds.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Nevertheless, "the situation is very different from the sovereign debt crisis of the early 2010s", he added, when investors selling Italian or Spanish debt almost automatically bought Bunds.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Investors are abandoning French government bonds for quality in German Bunds, which is magnifying the spread of the two wider.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Germany will auction September 2028-dated Schatz on Tuesday, and May 2047- and August 2056-dated Bunds on Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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