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bailouts

bailouts is the plural 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.

Questions about bailouts

What is bailouts the plural of?
Bailouts is the plural of bailout.

Words near bailouts in the dictionary

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

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