bailoutn.1
/ˈbeɪlaʊt/, U.S. /ˈbeɪˌlaʊt/ A (means of) release or rescue from difficulty or crisis; spec. an act of giving financial assistance to a failing business, etc.; money given as such assistance.
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1939 Time 9 Oct. 58/2 (heading) $40,000,000 bail-out.
1940 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Apr. 6/1 Mr. Bunker said he would prohibit loans to officers [of trusts] and other methods of effecting a ‘bail-out’.
1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xxxviii. 429 Her arrangement was a bailout for me.
1983 Philadelphia Inquirer 12 Apr. 5 c3 Ballesteros tried to make it interesting.., spraying some shots into the underbrush, but no one was putting any heat on him, and he has a knack for marvelous bailouts anyway.
2009 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 19 Jan. 1 It is the second bailout for the banks in the space of just three months.
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1944 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. 15/2 (heading) ‘Bail out’ program covers waste, spillage, and debiting for fake coupons.
1964 Washington Post 23 June a14/1 In cold cash terms, it means that the Common Market will not now give Italy a bail-out loan.
1971 Times 9 June 17/3 The Air Force also issued $61.1m in ‘bail-out’ funds to the financially troubled aircraft manufacturer.
2009 N. Behravesh Spin-free Econ. ix. 315 In the debate over the US bailout package in September of 2008, there was a huge amount of confusion among both the public and politicians about the..costs of the bailout.
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bailoutn.2
Originally U.S.
Aeronautics. An emergency parachute jump.
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society > travel > air or space travel > parachuting > [noun] > a jump > emergency jump from aircraft
bailout1955
1955 Sci. News Let. 8 Jan. 23 The purpose..was to explore human tolerances during a high speed bailout from jet planes.
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