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Bund

  [boond, buhnd; Ger. boont]
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–noun, plural Bunds, German. Bün⋅de  [byn-duh] .
1. a short form of “German-American Volksbund,” a pro-Nazi organization in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.
2. (often lowercase) an alliance or league, esp. a political society.
Origin:
< G: association, league

Related forms:
Bundist, noun
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bund 2   (bŏŏnd, bŭnd)   
n.  

  1. An association, especially a political association.

  2. often Bund A pro-Nazi German-American organization of the 1930s.

  3. often Bund A European Jewish socialist movement founded in Russia in 1897.


[German, from Middle High German bunt; see bhendh- in Indo-European roots.]
bund'ist n.
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