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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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Its impact was powerful: Ford became a target of protests in New York, national polling on a bailout shifted from negative to positive, and, by the end of the year, Ford had signed a bill that provided $2.3 billion in federal loans.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2025
Some point to the potentially positive impact on employee morale by suggesting that everyone in the firm is willing to sacrifice resources to bail out the weaker units.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
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Noun
This belief in intervention exists as the major source of disagreement with the authors given my own belief that the bailouts were the crisis.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Its impact was powerful: Ford became a target of protests in New York, national polling on a bailout shifted from negative to positive, and, by the end of the year, Ford had signed a bill that provided $2.3 billion in federal loans.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
Her husband bailed out of jail June 26 on a $1 million bond.
—Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2025
Some point to the potentially positive impact on employee morale by suggesting that everyone in the firm is willing to sacrifice resources to bail out the weaker units.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
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“Bailout.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bailout. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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bailout
noun
bail·out
ˈbāl-ˌau̇t 
: a rescue from financial distress
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