bail up

verb

1. informal,  to confine (a cow) or (of a cow) to be confined by the head in a bail See bail 3

2. (tr) history (of a bushranger) to hold under guard in order to rob

3. (intr) to submit to robbery without offering resistance

4. informal,  (tr) to accost or detain, esp in conversation; buttonhole

Example Sentences

He was released on unsecured bail, meaning he was not required to pay his bail up front, common for misdemeanors in Pennsylvania.

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“We put calls out last night trying to put bail up for the guy,” Bannon said the next morning on his “War Room” podcast.

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It was also on January 5 that Bannon, according to Peltz, said that Trump's allies had "put calls out last night trying to put bail up" for the Proud Boys' Enrique Tarrio, who had been arrested after tearing a Black Lives Matter banner down from an African-American church and burning it.

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Loomis Quinlan said Michigan Liberation considers cases of bail up to $7,500, but $2,500 is the highest single amount the organization has paid so far.

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“Defendants on bail up and down the country, and requested persons facing extradition, come to court to face the consequences of their own choices,” she said.

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