How to Use bondholder in a Sentence

bondholder

noun
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  • Callable bond: This type of bond gives the issuer the right to pay the bondholder back earlier than the full term of the bond.
    — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The report also found that Mount Ida had not met the terms of the bond covenants required by bondholders.
    — Laura Krantz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • The bondholders of $138 million of Neiman Marcus debt declined to be part of the agreement, and that debt matures next year.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 7 May 2020
  • That way, the bondholder isn’t left holding a worthless scrap of paper.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • WeWork has yet to report its results for the last three months of 2019, as it is required to do for bondholders.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The group led by Franklin and Pimco as well as other lenders and bondholders are backing iHeart’s chapter 11 plan.
    — Soma Biswas, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • To borrow that much debt, the country needs to pay an enormous amount of interest to its bondholders.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 24 July 2019
  • One of the largest bondholders, the hedge fund Elliott Management, has been a heavy investor in oil, gas and coal companies.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The demise of Credit Suisse and the zeroing of its junior bondholders.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Spokesmen for the oversight board, and both bondholder groups declined to comment.
    — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Similarly, a bondholder about to retire may need the steady stream of coupon payments the bond provides.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • None of its other backers—Fosun, the banks, bondholders or hedge funds—were prepared to do so.
    — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2019
  • That implies bondholders now expect to recoup only 71% of what was lent to the company in April.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The moves are designed to putting the stake out of reach of bondholders who financed PetSmart's acquisition with $2 billion in debt, Bloomberg said.
    — Rob Wile, miamiherald, 7 June 2018
  • The rule essentially seeks to shift the risk of a bank failure to bondholders rather than depositors.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Many bondholders care far more about how much income a bond pays than its capital value.
    — The Economist, 23 May 2020
  • The victims’ committee has now teamed up with PG&E bondholders to form their own plan to resolve the fire claims, and Montali will hear more about their efforts at a later date.
    — J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • While angry bondholders threatened lawsuits, the board used that threat as leverage.
    — Mary Williams Walsh, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The deal’s terms include giving the bondholders new debt that is cheaper for PG&E, among other provisions.
    — J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The yield on a 10-year Treasury bond, or the amount paid to a bondholder annually, stands at about 4.6%, marking nearly a percentage-point jump since June.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In that case, Supreme Court justices ruled 5-4 that a bondholder had to be paid the dollar amount of the bond, not the original weight of gold used in dollars at the time of purchase (which had been reduced by the time the lawsuit was filed).
    — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
  • Not all bondholders are happy, with some demanding full repayment of the bond on time, reports Bloomberg.
    — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • One bondholder, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter, said on Friday that the company had not made the payment.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • On paper, the Cofina bonds were safe—sales-tax collections never fell short of what bondholders were owed.
    — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2019
  • The town is counting on Foxconn’s property tax payments to pay its bondholders.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The exemption was put in place last year to prevent Mr. Maduro from citing American sanctions as a reason not to pay bondholders.
    — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Roughly half of that money came from Alliant stockholders and the balance from bondholders.
    — Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2020
  • When a bondholder purchases a credit default swap they are guaranteed to receive the money they’re owed in the event that the bond issuer defaults.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Country Garden is expected to hold a meeting on Thursday with bondholders to vote on whether to delay payment on one of the eight bonds, the media outlet added.
    — Laura He, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
  • If approved, the settlement would pay off senior bondholders owed nearly $8 billion at 93 cents on the dollar.
    — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2019

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