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View synonyms for make bail

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Idioms and Phrases

Put up security as an assurance that someone released from prison will appear for trial, as in He didn't think he could make bail for his brother . The use of bail for “security” was first recorded in 1495.
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Example Sentences

For more than two years they have been kept in a county jail, unable to make bail.

From BBC

“Another Wasted Life” is inspired by Kalief Browder, a New York City teenager who spent two years in solitary confinement at Rikers Island — three years in jail total — when he couldn’t make bail on a charge of stealing a backpack.

He will make bail, so he won’t be in jail.

Bogner couldn’t make bail—initially set at $150,000—so he was locked up in the Los Angeles County jail for 60 days.

It’s not uncommon for defendants who can’t make bail to lose their jobs and even their homes while in jail awaiting trial.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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