bailed out; bailing out; bails out
1
: to parachute from an aircraft
Examples of bailout in a Sentence
Noun
government bailouts of large corporations
Verb
if the meeting seems like it will never end, find an excuse to bail out
the government bailed out the savings and loan industry
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2025
Fueled by their opposition to government bailouts during the 2008 financial crisis, the Tea Party gained significant momentum after the Democratic-controlled and House passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
—Katherine Fung, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025
Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Lara’s plan enacts an insurance industry wishlist to reduce scrutiny of rates, make homeowners across the state bail out insurers for potential billions in FAIR Plan losses, and charge consumers for the cost of insurance that insurers buy in the global, unregulated reinsurance market.
—Carmen Balber, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Harry Reid, the Democratic Majority Leader in the Senate, had recently appointed her to a congressional panel tasked with examining the seven-hundred-billion-dollar bank bailout that George W. Bush had signed into law in October, 2008.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2025
Fueled by their opposition to government bailouts during the 2008 financial crisis, the Tea Party gained significant momentum after the Democratic-controlled and House passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
—Katherine Fung, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025
Verb
Advertisement Now, however, the FAIR Plan is facing its biggest crisis since the 1994 Northridge earthquake, when it was bailed out by the state’s licensed property insurance companies, which operate the plan and provide it with a financial backstop.
—Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Lara’s plan enacts an insurance industry wishlist to reduce scrutiny of rates, make homeowners across the state bail out insurers for potential billions in FAIR Plan losses, and charge consumers for the cost of insurance that insurers buy in the global, unregulated reinsurance market.
—Carmen Balber, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Bailout.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bailout. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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bailout
noun
bail·out
ˈbāl-ˌau̇t 
: a rescue from financial distress
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