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A bond is a formal contract where a borrower obtains external funding by agreeing to repay the lender principal plus interest at fixed intervals, making the lender the bond holder and creditor while the issuer is the debtor. Bonds finance long-term investments for companies or current expenditures for governments, differing from stocks which provide ownership equity instead of creditor status, and bonds typically have a defined maturity unlike indefinitely outstanding stocks.

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