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bailout

US/ˈbeɪlˌaʊt/

bailout noun: a rescue, especially a financial rescue.

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.
    • "The no bailout' clause is violated every day."2016, Otmar Issing, former ECB chief economist, Euro 'house of cards' to collapse, warns ECB prophet
  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.

bailout meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

bailout in Hindi

बेलआउट

bailout in Tamil

பிணை எடுப்பு

bailout in Marathi

बेलआउट

bailout in Bengali

বেলআউট
More languagesFewer languages
bailout in Telugu
బెయిలవుట్, బెయిలౌట్
bailout in Malayalam
ബെയ്ലൌട്ട്
bailout in Kannada
ಬೇಲ್ಔಟ್, ಬೇಲ್ಅವುಟ್
bailout in Punjabi
ਬੇਲਆਊਟ, ਬੇਲਆਉਟ
bailout in Gujarati
બેલઆઉટ
bailout in Odia
ବେଲଆଉଟ୍, ବେଲ୍ଆଉଟ୍, ବେଲଆଉଟ
bailout in Nepali
बेलआउट
bailout in Indonesian
penyelamatan

Examples of bailout in a sentence

  • The notion that London will go cap in hand for a bailout too big for the IMF to deliver is absurd.
  • Republicans have been good at fragilizing large corporations through bailouts, and Democrats have been good at fragilizing the government.
  • Department of Administrative Assistance) or indirectly (lobbying, lawyering, feeding the beast, or living on bailout subsidies) you are a loser chump.

All 13 example sentences with bailout

Forms of bailout

pluralbailouts
alternative formbail-out

Plural of bailout: bailouts

Origin of bailout

Deverbal from bail out.

Words formed from bailout

Questions about bailout

What does bailout mean?
Bailout means a rescue, especially a financial rescue.
What is bailout in Hindi?
Bailout in Hindi is बेलआउट. See Bailout meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bailout?
Bailout is a noun.
How do you pronounce bailout?
Bailout is pronounced /ˈbeɪlˌaʊt/ (US).
What is the plural of bailout?
The plural of bailout is bailouts.

Words near bailout in the dictionary

  1. Bailon
  2. Bailongwei
  3. Bailons
  4. bailor
  5. bailors
  6. bailout
  7. bailouts
  8. bailpieces
  9. bails
  10. bails on
  11. bails out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bailout (page history and authors); bailout (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bailout (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bailout (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bailout (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bailout (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bailout (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bailout (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bailout (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bailout (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bailout (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bailout (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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