Definition of bailout
:a rescue from financial distress
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Examples of bailout in a Sentence
government bailouts of large corporations
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The state treasurer is threatening to withhold bailout loans.
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Cost-sharing payments, rather than being a bailout, were included in the Affordable Care Act’s blueprint as a way to make insurance more affordable.
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The local bailout commitment is in addition to state subsidies for the deal that would amount to nearly 50 times the previous record paid by Wisconsin taxpayers to secure a manufacturing plant in the state.
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Education opportunity should be the price Illinois governor Bruce Rauner demands in return for Chicago getting its pension bailout.
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Conservatives generally oppose the subsidies, calling them a bailout of the insurance industry and arguing that the Obama administration didn’t have the authority to pay them.
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But post-EU bailout, the country has become newly revitalized.
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On November 8, 2016, the firm’s prospects of securing a bailout massively improved.
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Worldpay was spun out of Royal Bank of Scotland in 2010, as part of the EU's conditions for approving the U.K.'s 43 billion pound bailout of RBS during the financial crisis.
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First Known Use of bailout
1939
Other Business Terms
bail out
verb
Definition of bail out
intransitive verb
1
:to parachute from an aircraft
Examples of bail out in a Sentence
if the meeting seems like it will never end, find an excuse to bail out
the government bailed out the savings and loan industry
First Known Use of bail out
1925
bail out Synonyms
Synonyms
bail, go, begone, book [slang], bugger off [British slang], bug off, bug out, buzz (off), clear off [chiefly British], clear out, cut out, depart, dig out, exit, get, get off, go off, move, pack (up or off), part, peel off, pike (out or off), pull out, push off, push on, quit, run along, sally (forth), scarper [British], shove (off), step (along), take off, vamoose, walk outAntonyms
arrive, come, show up, turn upRelated Words
set out, start, strike out; abscond, decamp, escape, evacuate, flee, fly, get out, mizzle [chiefly British], run away, scat, scram, skip; go out, light out, step out; abandon, desert, forsake, vacate; emigrate; adjourn, remove, retire, retreat, withdrawNear Antonyms
abide, dwell, lodge, remain, settle, stay, tarry; approach, close, near; hit, land, reachFinancial Definition of BAILOUT
bailout
What It Is
A bailout is financial help for ailing companies.
How It Works
Company XYZ is in the newspaper industry and has seen a dramatic downturn in its advertising sales. The company's board believes that if it can launch an interactive digital version of its product, which has been in development for two years, it could become a viable business again.
Company XYZ publishes the only paper in the county, and Company ABC loves the newspaper. Company ABC agrees to lend Company XYZ enough money to launch the new digital product, and it prices the loan at an interest rate below what Company XYZ could get anywhere else. Essentially, Company ABC gives Company XYZ a bailout.
Bailouts can be loans, but they can also be stock, cash, bonds, or other forms of money.
Why It Matters
Bailouts are essentially monies intended to get companies out of trouble. Often, governments give bailouts to companies whose bankruptcies would cost what the government deems "too many jobs" or cause "too much" damage.
Bailouts are a challenge to capitalism in its purest sense. Critics of bailouts argue, for example, that companies should be left to succeed and fail on their own merits, and that supply and demand in the free markets will always determine the worth of goods and services. Supporters of bailouts argue that bailouts are sometimes the lesser of two evils when it comes to a company failing and displacing thousands of workers.
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