Definder - what does the word mean?

What is to bail out?

bail-out (noun, verb)

- A person or financial institution providing money to a party that made a bad investment in order to cover their losses.

1. The Fed bailed-out out the big banks during the financial crisis.

2. The British Government issued a 500 billion pound bail-out package as a response to the ongoing financial crisis.

3. It is the taxpayers who will ultimately have to pay for the latest bank bail-outs.

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to bail out - video


To bail out - what is it?

When someone in the car to has to pee so they pee in a vessel and it’s thrown out of the car.

My girlfriend has to pee all the time, so when she had to go for the tenth time on our road trip I had to bail-out the car instead of stopping.

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What does "to bail out" mean?

In Programming: to terminate an excecution pattern on the basis of some error condition.

"No, no, you want to BAIL OUT after you run the stack-trace."

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To bail out - what does it mean?

In British rail enthusiasts terms to bail out is a short term planning route alteration or a move enforced upon the individual due to unforseen circumstances.

1 - There was a chance to ride behind Deltic 55009 so we bailed out at Doncaster.

2 - The line was blocked between St Germans and Menheniot so we had to bail out at Plymouth.

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To bail out - meaning

Run away for someone.

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To bail out - definition

In Programming, giving up and running away before anyone realizes that your code has gone into an infinite loop and won't come out.

John had to bail out when his code went south, before he got Uber Pwnd by the boss.

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To bail out - slang

What industry executives petition the government to pay out of tax-payer coffers when they don't have enough capital to pay themselves their annual million dollar bonus.

CEO: Sales are down for the 15th quarter straight. Our product is not in demand. We have to lay off workers.

CFO: Better ask congress for a bail out so we can get our bonus.

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To bail out

To cheese it, as in run away, or get out of the way quickly

i had to bail out of the exploding car

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To bail out

To agree to go to an event and then having an excuse for not going.

She bailed out again on something we planned, not going to invite her next time.

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To bail out

Verb : to save someone from their own financial stupidity or incompetence

Your parents won't be around, or even able to, to bail out your sorry little ass for ever. Learn some financial responsibility

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