bailed out; bailing out; bails out
1
: to parachute from an aircraft
Synonyms
Verb
- bail
- begone
- book [slang]
- bug off
- bug out
- bugger off [British slang]
- buzz (off)
- clear off [chiefly British]
- clear out
- cut out
- depart
- dig out
- exit
- get
- get off
- go
- go off
- move
- pack (up or off)
- part
- peel off
- pike (out or off)
- pull out
- push off
- push on
- quit
- run along
- sally (forth)
- scarper [British]
- shove (off)
- step (along)
- take off
- vamoose
- walk out
Examples of bailout in a Sentence
Noun
government bailouts of large corporations
Verb
if the meeting seems like it will never end, find an excuse to bail out
the government bailed out the savings and loan industry
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Olesya Dmitracova and Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
The country’s leaders reached a preliminary agreement with the IMF for a bailout package in 2022 but have made limited progress on reforms required to clinch the deal.
—Sally Abou Aljoud and Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Lara’s plan enacts an insurance industry wishlist to reduce scrutiny of rates, make homeowners across the state bail out insurers for potential billions in FAIR Plan losses, and charge consumers for the cost of insurance that insurers buy in the global, unregulated reinsurance market.
—Carmen Balber, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
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Noun
The newly independent Chrysler went bankrupt and required a federal bailout within two years.
—Olesya Dmitracova and Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
The country’s leaders reached a preliminary agreement with the IMF for a bailout package in 2022 but have made limited progress on reforms required to clinch the deal.
—Sally Abou Aljoud and Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Verb
Advertisement Now, however, the FAIR Plan is facing its biggest crisis since the 1994 Northridge earthquake, when it was bailed out by the state’s licensed property insurance companies, which operate the plan and provide it with a financial backstop.
—Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Lara’s plan enacts an insurance industry wishlist to reduce scrutiny of rates, make homeowners across the state bail out insurers for potential billions in FAIR Plan losses, and charge consumers for the cost of insurance that insurers buy in the global, unregulated reinsurance market.
—Carmen Balber, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Bailout.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bailout. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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bailout
noun
bail·out
ˈbāl-ˌau̇t 
: a rescue from financial distress
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