to bail
1
8.4
- verb
- /beɪl/
- Formal
:
consignar
- Why are we bailing out the bankers and Wall Street and foreclosing on homeowners?
Examples
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Someone's shown up to bail the city out.
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Whenever she gets into financial troubles (she is in college), my mom bails her out.
Blog text (8) -
Do you think government should bail out public companies industries, Which ones?
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Maybe we can bail out Greece while we're at it!
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Who is getting bailed out again?
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I have to express thanks to you just for bailing me out of such an incident.
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Wall Street bailed out a hedge fund, long term capital.
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Republicans keep trying to deregulate industries, and the government keeps having to bail the economy out.
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She decided to bail her brother out of jail after he had been arrested for a minor offense.
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The lawyer had to bail the defendant out before the trial could proceed.
Synonyms
1
7.0
Give something to another person or place to keep safe
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Formal
4
6.6
A written promise to pay money if a person accused of a crime does not go to court
How Restricted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bail (to deliver into custody) comes from an old word for 'handing over' or 'keeping safe' and links back to words like bailiff. So to bail something to another person is to give it to them to hold for a time under an agreement.