bailout
/ˈbeɪlˌaʊt/
verb
- To provide financial help to a person, company, or country in serious economic trouble.
- The central bank decided to bailout the failing bank with emergency funds.
- Her parents had to bailout her brother after he lost his job.
- The government refused to bailout the corporation again.
- To escape from a difficult situation, often by leaving or giving up.
- He decided to bailout of the partnership before it collapsed.
- The pilot had to bailout of the plane when the engine failed.
- She wanted to bailout of the project, but her team needed her.
noun
- Financial help given to a person, company, or country that is in serious economic trouble.
- Without a bailout from investors, the startup would have gone bankrupt.
- Many taxpayers were angry about the bank bailout during the recession.
- The government approved a bailout for the struggling airline industry.
- An act of escaping from a difficult situation, often by giving up or leaving.
- The team's last-minute goal was a bailout from a humiliating loss.
- He saw early retirement as a bailout from a job he hated.
- Selling the house was their bailout from mounting debt.