bail out

verb

Definition of bail outnext
1
as in to exit
to leave a place often for another if the meeting seems like it will never end, find an excuse to bail out

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2
as in to rescue
to remove from danger or harm the government bailed out the savings and loan industry

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Recent Examples of bail out Niemiec bailed out of jail on Monday after posting a $4,000 bond. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026 Las Vegas Night Bail Bondsmen, celebrating the industry of bailing out frat boys who let loose a bit too much in Vegas. — Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 When the Black Lives Matter protests exploded in the summer of 2020, Harris sent out a fundraising appeal to bail out people who were arrested protesting in Minnesota. — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 June 2026 Hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management was bailed out in 1998. — Marty Steinberg, CNBC, 22 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for bail out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bail out
  1. exit
  2. rescue
  3. move
  4. save
  5. depart
  6. get
  7. go
  8. peel off
Verb
  • Following a consultation with Groeschner, Schmitt exited the game and slowly walked off the field.
    — Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
  • Iran remains incentivized to exercise maximum control over shipping traffic entering and exiting the oil-rich region.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
Definition of exit
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  • In nearby Yatsushiro, a chimney collapse at a Nippon Paper Industries factory killed five people while seven others were rescued from the debris, according to the Kumamoto prefectural government disaster team.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
  • From there, drive north to Moscow, about 40 minutes away, and check into the Monarch Motel, a mid-century motel rescued from disrepair in 2015.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of rescue
Verb
  • The Tigers won for just the second time in six games to start a three-city West Coast swing and moved within 3 1/2 games of the final wild-card spot in the American League.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • If the proposal moves forward, corporate demographic data related to employee race and gender would be less available to the public.
    — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of move
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  • Tom Holland‘s Peter Parker made the difficult decision to erase his identity from the world in order to save the multiverse, leaving his girlfriend (Zendaya) and best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) to forget about him.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The most obvious drawback is that the program doesn’t save money for New Yorkers overall.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of save
Verb
  • But Roosevelt continued to press for progressive tax reform even after Long departed from the political (and earthly) stage.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • That figure undercuts the simplest version of the story, in which departing billionaires are draining capital from the state alongside their personal wealth.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 July 2026
Definition of depart
Verb
  • When Marshall showed up, Reyes and Chamberlain both fired guns at Marshall as Marshall tried to get away, according to the affidavit.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 July 2026
  • The idea is that the more of the filter feeders cling to the seawall, the cleaner the canal gets.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
Definition of get
Verb
  • Second, and perhaps more scientific (as far as these things go) is the fact that Sunfyre had not, in any way, begun to rot.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • And Eno and myself at that time were coming into the studio a little bit earlier than everybody in the morning just to get something going.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of go
Verb
  • Building facades don't just look weathered and soot-stained, graffiti is scrawled on them and posters are peeling off them.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • The pool was drained after the July Fourth fireworks, weeks after pieces of the lining peeled off and algae turned the water green.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 30 July 2026
Definition of peel off

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