contract bond
noun [C] (also performance bond) LAWDefinition
› an official promise from an organization such as a bank or insurance company to pay money to a company if its contractor (= person or company doing work for it) does not complete a job successfully: Contract bonds are used a lot in the construction industry.
(Definition of contract bond noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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