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View synonyms for bail out

bail out

verb

  1. intr to make an emergency parachute jump from an aircraft
  2. informal.
    tr to help (a person, organization, etc) out of a predicament

    the government bailed the company out

  3. informal.
    intr to escape from a predicament
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Knight offered to post $1.4 million to bail out Tupac pending an appeal.

John Cornyn has voted to increase the debt, raise taxes, bail out Wall Street banks, and fund Obamacare.

The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy has led to an unwelcome tendency to bail out all banks.

Only under extreme circumstances should states bail out banks.

Unsaid: "We will bail out your banks if they get into trouble."

In the mean time the canoe sprung a leak, and we found it impossible to bail out the water as fast as it came in.

But he admitted that when he went to the station-house to bail out the girls, he acted as a political leader.

While I had been gone, two of the guys had had to bail out of their P-39s due to engine trouble.

It was on my mind the whole mission that if anything happened I would have to land the plane and not bail out.

No, you can let that worry bail out of your mind, and forget it forever.

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