bonded

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People or animals who are bonded have a close connection that makes them want to be together:

The two cats left at the vet's were obviously a bonded pair and it would have been cruel to separate them.

Because the players spend a lot of time travelling together they are very well bonded.

involving or held together by chemical bonds (= strong forces):

An ion is an atom or group of bonded atoms which become negatively or positively charged by losing or gaining one or more electrons.

covalently bonded molecules

made from layers or fibres (= thin threads) that are joined together, often with a kind of glue:

Bonded fabrics are prone to tearing, but they do not stretch or fray.

Felt is made of many bonded layers.

Bonded debt is secured by bonds (= official documents given by the government or a company to show that you have lent them money that they will pay back to you at a particular interest rate):

Officials say any light rail expansion would require bonded debt.

Bonded goods are goods brought from another country on which taxes have not yet been paid, usually kept in a special building until the taxes have been paid; a bonded warehouse is a building for keeping goods like this:

Customs and Excise would need to approve the transfer of bonded goods to another site.

To prevent traffic jams at ports, it's common for shipments to be moved to bonded warehouses close to the purchaser for a Customs inspection.

Bonded whisky (= a strong alcoholic drink originally from Scotland and Ireland) is made according to strict standards of quality:

The venue is a former bonded whiskey warehouse.

Last year, the company's Bottled-in-Bond Rye was named "Northern American Whiskey of the Year".

a bonded company has insurance in order to protect its customers if the company has a problem:

Get estimates from more than one licensed, bonded, reputable contractor.

a bonded travel agency (= company that sells holidays) has insurance to protect its customers if there is a problem with the travel agency or the travel arrangements it has provided:

Since 1992 we have operated a fully bonded Travel Agency.