bonded

bonded

1. simple past and past participle of bond

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.

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

• debond