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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bail outverb

    free on bail

  2. bail out, bale outverb

    remove (water) from a boat by dipping and throwing over the side

Wiktionary

  1. bail outverb

    To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail money.

  2. bail outverb

    To remove water from a boat by scooping it out.

  3. bail outverb

    To rescue, especially financially.

  4. bail outverb

    To exit an aircraft while in flight.

  5. bail outverb

    To leave (or not attend at all) a place or a situation, especially quickly or when the situation has become undesirable.

  6. bail outverb

    To sell all or part of one's holdings in stocks, real estate, a business, etc.

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  1. bail out

    A bail out is a situation where a business, individual, or government offers financial assistance to a failing business or economy, with the aim of saving it from bankruptcy, insolvency, or total collapse. It could also refer to helping someone out of a difficult or problematic situation.

Rap Dictionary

  1. bail outverb

    To run away. "It's about lunch time, bail out of class, what it see like?" -- DPG (School Yard)

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  1. obitual

  2. tabouli

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bail out in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bail out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of bail out in a Sentence

  1. Nikki Haley:

    Now, they want to bail out a bank? No. If one of our small businesses got bailed out – or went into bankruptcy, do you think they’d bail us out? They wouldn’t.

  2. Steven Mnuchin:

    We just want to make sure that before we jump back in and spend another few trillion of taxpayers' money that we do it carefully, we've been very clear that we're not going to do things just to bail out states that were poorly managed.

  3. Jasper Lawler:

    The Italian bank rescue fund has surpassed expectations that it might get watered down in the final hours of negotiations, top Italian banks are already seeing the benefit of their investment into the fund that will be used to bail out smaller banks via the increase in their share price.

  4. Marco Rubio:

    Well, he’s doing it to lower gas prices because he’s afraid of the impact. And unfortunately what’s happened now is our strategic reserve is at its lowest level, I believe since 1982 or ’83, we have a strategic reserve for war, for in case of drastic emergency. It doesn’t exist to bail out the president’s party in an election year.

  5. Kim Mulkey:

    This is an example of the type of athlete and the type of student athlete you need more of today, most of them would bail out on you after one or two years, but Moon — she's going to go down in the history of our program as one of the all-time favorite kids.


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  • vyskočitCzech
  • saltar, sacar de un apuro, achicar, abandonarSpanish
  • äyskäröidä, livistää, pelastaaFinnish
  • se tirer, écoper, se barrerFrench
  • izsmelt, bastotLatvian
  • ipu, ipuipuMāori
  • сва́ливать, вы́черпать, вычёрпывать, свали́тьRussian

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