bund
/bʌnd/
noun
- A league, federation, or association, especially of a political or social nature.
- The farmers' bund met annually to discuss crop prices.
- The various local clubs formed a bund to coordinate their charity work.
- Historians studied the German American Bund that existed in the 1930s.
- An embankment or dike, especially in South Asia, used to control water or as a roadway.
- The village built a bund along the river to prevent flooding.
- We walked along the top of the bund, watching the rice paddies below.
- The old bund was reinforced with stone after the monsoon rains.
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