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bail-out

bail-out is the alternative spelling of bailout.

Meaning of bailout

Noun

bailout (plural bailouts)

  1. A rescue, especially a financial rescue.
    • The government bailout of that corporation is going to cost the taxpayers a hundred billion dollars.
  2. The process of exiting an aircraft while in flight.
    • Bailouts from side doors are risky because the slipstream may carry a chutist into the plane's tail section.1972, Popular Mechanics, volume 138, number 3, page 193
  3. A backup supply of air in scuba diving.
  4. The situation where a firefighter uses equipment to escape a structure where fire has proven uncontrollable.
  5. (informal) The act of bailing out; a departure or abandonment.

Forms of bail-out

pluralbail-outs

Origin of bail-out

Deverbal from bail out.

Questions about bail-out

What is bail-out the alternative spelling of?
Bail-out is the alternative spelling of bailout.

Words near bail-out in the dictionary

  1. bail out
  2. bail out on
  3. bail up
  4. bail-in
  5. bail-ins
  6. bail-out
  7. bail-outs
  8. bail-piece
  9. baila
  10. bailability
  11. bailable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bail-out (page history and authors); bailout (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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