bailout
or bail-out
the act of parachuting from an aircraft, especially to escape a crash, fire, etc.
an instance of coming to the rescue, especially financially: a government bailout of a large company.
an alternative, additional choice, or the like: If the highway is jammed, you have two side roads as bailouts.
of, relating to, or consisting of means for relieving an emergency situation: bailout measures for hard-pressed smallbusinesses.
Origin of bailout
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How to use bailout in a sentence
Knight offered to post $1.4 million to bail out Tupac pending an appeal.
John Cornyn has voted to increase the debt, raise taxes, bail out Wall Street banks, and fund Obamacare.
Tea Party Rep. Steve Stockman Targets John Cornyn | Ben Jacobs | December 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Lehman Brothers bankruptcy has led to an unwelcome tendency to bail out all banks.
Only under extreme circumstances should states bail out banks.
Unsaid: "We will bail out your banks if they get into trouble."
European Finance Ministers Talk Tough About Bank Bailouts. Does It Matter? | Megan McArdle | March 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
In the mean time the canoe sprung a leak, and we found it impossible to bail out the water as fast as it came in.
But he admitted that when he went to the station-house to bail out the girls, he acted as a political leader.
While I had been gone, two of the guys had had to bail out of their P-39s due to engine trouble.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy BensonIt was on my mind the whole mission that if anything happened I would have to land the plane and not bail out.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy BensonNo, you can let that worry bail out of your mind, and forget it forever.
Dave Dawson with the R.A.F | R. Sidney Bowen
British Dictionary definitions for bailout (1 of 2)
/ (ˈbeɪlaʊt) /
an act of bailing out, usually by the government, of a failing institution or business
British Dictionary definitions for bail out (2 of 2)
(intr) to make an emergency parachute jump from an aircraft
(tr) informal to help (a person, organization, etc) out of a predicament: the government bailed the company out
(intr) informal to escape from a predicament
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Other Idioms and Phrases with bailout
Empty water out of a boat, usually by dipping with a bucket or other container. For example, We had to keep bailing out water from this leaky canoe. [Early 1600s]
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