bailed out; bailing out; bails out
1
: to parachute from an aircraft
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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Joey Garrison, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
Instead, previous actions took the form of temporary nationalization, regulatory control, subsidies, or bailouts—often during war or economic emergency.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2025
Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Looking further back, the U.S. has bailed out companies or temporarily taken them over in times of financial panic or war.
—Joseph Lawler, The Washington Examiner, 18 Aug. 2025
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Noun
The discussions, which come as Intel has struggled to open manufacturing centers planned in the United States, would be one of the largest government interventions in the private industry since the bailout of the U.S. auto industry under former President Barack Obama.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
Instead, previous actions took the form of temporary nationalization, regulatory control, subsidies, or bailouts—often during war or economic emergency.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
Also Thursday, board members agreed to use $8.3 million in reserves and $34 million in this year’s discretionary funds — including money that otherwise would have gone to the CTA and Metra — to help bail out the region’s paratransit program, which is run by Pace.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Looking further back, the U.S. has bailed out companies or temporarily taken them over in times of financial panic or war.
—Joseph Lawler, The Washington Examiner, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Bailout.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bailout. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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bailout
noun
bail·out
ˈbāl-ˌau̇t 
: a rescue from financial distress
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