bail out

verb

1. (intr) to make an emergency parachute jump from an aircraft

2. informal,  (tr) to help (a person, organization, etc) out of a predicament

   the government bailed the company out

3. informal,  (intr) to escape from a predicament

Idioms and Phrases

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]

Rescue someone in an emergency, especially a financial crisis of some kind, as in They were counting on an inheritance to bail them out . [ Colloquial ; 1900s]

Jump out of an airplane, using a parachute. For example, When the second engine sputtered, the pilot decided to bail out . [c. 1930]

Give up on something, abandon a responsibility, as in The company was not doing well, so John decided to bail out while he could still find another job . [Second half of 1900s]

See make bail .

Example Sentences

Torres notes that investors spent the day bailing out of the market ahead of tomorrow’s earnings report from Nvidia, as the AI skepticism theme gains traction.

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We were driving up the 5 Freeway to a lawyer’s appointment in Los Angeles County to try to bail out her husband from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

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But the federal government is already bailing out the AI industry with regulatory changes and public funds that will protect companies in the event of a private sector pullback.

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There was clearly some low price at which Michael Burry might bail out of his bet against the subprime mortgage bond market.

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So the Treasury bails out the NFIP, mostly in the form of loans.

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Related Words

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• rescue