bailout
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bailout (plural bailouts)
- A rescue, especially a financial rescue.
- The government bailout of that corporation is going to cost the taxpayers a hundred billion dollars.
- 2016, Otmar Issing, former ECB chief economist, Euro 'house of cards' to collapse, warns ECB prophet[1]:
- "The no bailout' clause is violated every day."
- 2020 November 18, “Network News: London 'bailout' achieved with just minutes to spare”, in Rail, page 10:
- The funding arrangement was described by the Government as a "bailout".
- The process of exiting an aircraft while in flight.
- 1972, Popular Mechanics, volume 138, number 3, page 193:
- Bailouts from side doors are risky because the slipstream may carry a chutist into the plane's tail section.
- (underwater diving) A backup supply of air in scuba diving.
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- bail out (verb)
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a rescue, especially a financial rescue
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backup supply of air in scuba diving
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Unadapted borrowing from English bailout.
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bailout m (invariable)