0 a person or organization that holds a bond
1 a person or organization that owns a bond:
Those who manage the money have a responsibility to bondholders to repay them on time.
If paid in a good silver dollar, the bondholder has nothing to complain of.
On the other hand, if a concern is very successful, a shareholder may receive large dividends, while the bondholder receives only the stipulated interest.
The consequence of this blunder was that Egypt went into default, and England's might was used on behalf of the bondholders who had made a bad investment.
Then there's the alternative of the bondholders putting up money enough to finish the work.
With the 1930s hiatus, the private bondholders appear now not to have done that badly, if they held out to the end across the whole range of foreign security issues.
In some ways the problems of the railway pensioners are stronger than those of either the bondholders or the civil servants.
To try to tie the two together would harm rather than help the interests of the bondholders.
