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bailout

US/ˈbeɪlˌaʊt/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: bailouts

A bailout is money given to rescue a failing business. Demand a bailout.

The image is bailing water out of a boat rather than bail in a court. A bailout raises the question of who is allowed to fail, which is never settled.

Definitions of bailout

  1. 1nounbailoutMoney given to rescue a failing business.C1

    “The bailout cost more than the company had ever been worth.”

bailout is a rescue.

Where it comes from

Deverbal from bail out.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

bailout in the wild

  • A bailout is the provision of financial help to a corporation or country which otherwise would be on the brink of bankruptcy.

    Bailout

  • A bailout can, but does not necessarily, avoid an insolvency process.

    Bailout

  • By 2012, polls from Pew Research Center and Quinnipiac University Polling Institute show that the American public believed that the bailouts were helpful for the American economy.

    Effects of the 2008–2010 automotive industry crisis on the United States

  • Ireland and Portugal received EU-IMF bailouts In November 2010 and May 2011, respectively.

    Euro area crisis

  • In March 2012, Greece received its second bailout.

    Euro area crisis

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.