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.
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How to use bailout in a sentence
Weeks after a federal bailout helped Metro veer away from a fiscal crisis, the transit agency plans to borrow $360 million through bond sales to expedite construction projects officials say will make the system safer.
Metro seeks bond sales to raise $360 million for capital projects | Justin George | February 10, 2021 | Washington PostThey also say the bucks are expensive bailouts for badly managed Blue States.
State Budgets Are In Tatters. Republicans in Washington Say Too Bad | Philip Elliott | February 4, 2021 | TimeAs head of the San Francisco Fed more than a decade ago, she sided with Wells Fargo on a question of whether banks were stable enough to resume paying dividends after the financial crisis and bank bailouts.
Experts have long feared that the weight of that ever-rising mountain of euros is so great only a Greece-like bailout can keep Italy from exiting the common currency.
The federal bailout was a needed injection for households and several industries, but it didn’t directly provide financial help to local governments served by the Metro system.
Metro to lower its annual subsidy request from Washington-area jurisdictions | Justin George | January 12, 2021 | Washington Post
The bailout crybabies of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and all the rest are easy targets—and deserving ones, too.
Ex-AIG CEO Maurice ‘Hank’ Greenberg is in court seeking $40 billion from the government over its massive bailout.
Remember the $182 Billion AIG Bailout? It Just Wasn’t Generous Enough | Daniel Gross | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe solution was a bailout—of AIG, and of the financial system as a whole.
Remember the $182 Billion AIG Bailout? It Just Wasn’t Generous Enough | Daniel Gross | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1998, when the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management blew up, the New York Fed helped organize a $3.65 billion bailout.
The Incredible 'Wussiness' Of The Fed Vs Goldman Sachs—Caught On Tape | Daniel Gross | September 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFive months later, the New York Fed tried (without success) to organize a bailout of Lehman Brothers.
The Incredible 'Wussiness' Of The Fed Vs Goldman Sachs—Caught On Tape | Daniel Gross | September 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
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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