Meaning of bund | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A waterfront area in central Shanghai.
2. The General Jewish Labour Bund, a secular Jewish socialist party in the Russian Empire.
   historical
3. A bond issued by the German federal government.
   uncountable, usually
4. A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
5. A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
6. Any related movements in other countries, such as the still-existing Australian Bund, etc.
7. A group of foreign sympathizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
8. A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
   India
9. An embankment.

Examples

“The most important of these [secondary containment] provisions are bunds, which are enclosures capable of holding liquids that may escape from the vessels and pipes within the bund wall.”

“It is pleasant to see the Chinese domestics and their families; or native ladies dressed in silks, their glossy hair held in by a broad black velvet band with a spray of pearls in front, being propelled along the bund in their hand-carts; but they are not used among Europeans, excepting after dark.”

“A massive opening in the bund (embankment), specifically there to screen the quarry from view, was needed, along with a Midland Railway-style bridge carrying a historic bridleway.”

“RAIB said it could not find evidence to explain who built the earth bank, known as a bund, or why it was built.”

CEFR level