<noun.person> the bonds were transmitted by carrier
a messenger who bears or presents
<noun.person> a bearer of good tidings
one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral
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the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it
<noun.person> the bond was marked `payable to bearer'
Bearer \Bear"er\ (b[^a]r"[~e]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. ``Bearers of burdens.'' --2 Chron. ii. 18. ``The bearer of unhappy news.'' --Dryden.
2. Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer. --Milton.
3. A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant. [India]
4. A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.
5. (Com.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.
6. (Print.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
The Swiss franc-denominated bonds are convertible into shares of either ICN, a California-based biotechnology concern, or into bearer shares of the Swiss chemical concern Ciba-Geigy.
The office issues bearer receipts, which trade on the exchange.
They also proposed a restructuring of share capital, converting all other classes of shares and participation certificates into SFr100 bearer shares.
Also, many investors refuse to part with their bearer bonds, because they like the anonymity such bonds give them.
Kim Dae Jung, Korea's foremost dissident politician, almost certainly will drop out of the presidential race, leaving rival Kim Young Sam as the standard bearer of the opposition Reunification and Democracy Party.
Mr. Lucas blamed summer vacations for thwarting Bond Corp.'s effort to round up holders of its bearer bonds.
"I can't be the standard bearer for the entire race," he says.
A bearer bond carries no owner's name on the issuer's books and no name on the certificate.
Blood is shed and dozens of people hospitalised.' Nezavismaya Gazeta is the standard bearer of the liberals, the reformers, the good guys.
It forecasts, for example, that Union Bank of Switzerland will split its registered and bearer shares five for one and perhaps force the conversion of the few remaining participation certificates.
It stemmed from the 1983 tax reform act that banned the issuance of new bearer bonds.
Since the announcement of the capital restructuring in early March, the group's bearer shares have risen from SFr5,040 to SFr5,600. Mr Wenger adds: 'Management has started to understand that shareholders are an important part of a company's life.
Largely because the drop in 1990 earnings was due to an exceptional loss, the company said it would propose an unchanged dividend of 45 francs for each bearer share and each registered share and nine francs for each participation certificate.
If Sin-E is the flag bearer of the alternative Irish, Mr. Doyle maintains that he himself is "not one to wave too many banners.
On the reverse side instructions in Pushtu, the Afghan language, inform the bearer that he can bring only one suitcase and no weapons or food.
The debt will be exchanged at a small discount of about 3% or 4% to its face value, and the bearer notes will be swapped for shares in the fund, a Midland spokesman said.
"It costs a tremendous amount of money to keep around bearer bonds," says Angela Desmond, general counsel of the rulemaking board.
Even if it is western it is the bearer of universal values - and being western does not necessarily mean it is bad.' I referred to the Asian plea of cultural difference and a collective right of development. 'But that's not the issue.
Unitholders who did not take up their rights will be paid the 4.46p premium to the rights price. Take-up of the 241.5m bearer rights shares, listed in Paris, is expected to be significantly higher.
The bearer shares raced up from SFr655 on January 4 to over SFr800 in early February in anticipation of an early profits recovery.
They noted that global asset-backed offerings with annual coupons in anonymous bearer form are preferred by European retail investors.
But he does it as the bearer of good news, and his advice differs from Revere's.
They can then sell one bearer share to the company at SFr2,300 for every 100 options held or one registered share at SFr460 for every 20 options held.
The Palestinians have said they want to represent themselves, with the Palestinian Liberation Organization as their standard bearer.
At 61, he is a standard bearer for long-term investing, the perfect antidote to the get-rich-quick schemers of Wall Street.
The board is proposing to split the bearer and registered shares five for one and to convert the participation certificates into bearer shares.
The board is proposing to split the bearer and registered shares five for one and to convert the participation certificates into bearer shares.
Richard M. Daley, bearer of the most recognizable name in big-city politics and seasoned by an unsuccessful run five years ago, announced Monday he will seek the mayor's office his father occupied for 21 years.
The information bearer is, by his very nature, a passionless creature who exists to draw attention to his message.
Ramzan, the bearer, brought tea and home-made scones. But even here, the effects of the fighting were visible - in the empty pages of Mr Butt's visitors' book and in the rotting timbers of the boats he could no longer afford to maintain.