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bail out (third-person singular simple present bails out, present participle bailing out, simple past and past participle bailed out)

1. (transitive) To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail money.
2. (transitive, nautical) To remove water from a boat by scooping it out.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     But it passed, leaving us up to our knees in water. 'Bail out! bail out!' shouted Job, suiting the action to the word.

3. (transitive, idiomatic) To rescue, especially financially.

   Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.

   • 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal‎, Guardian Unlimited:

     Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first soldier to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.

4. (intransitive, usually with of) To exit an aircraft while in flight.

   Make sure your parachute harness is securely fastened before you bail out!

   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage, →ISBN, page 308:

     Holmes bailed out of his fighter and parachuted onto an apartment house.

5. (intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To leave (or not attend at all) a place or a situation, especially quickly or when the situation has become undesirable; to abandon (something).

   I'm going to bail out of class today.

   She's bailing out on the project.

6. (intransitive, idiomatic, slang, with on) To abandon (someone) when that person faces difficulties.

   When I got arrested, she bailed out on me.

7. (intransitive, idiomatic, colloquial, with of) To sell all or part of one's holdings in stocks, real estate, a business, etc.

   I'm going to bail out of stocks and buy gold instead.

8. (intransitive, with of) To make an unscheduled voluntary termination of an underwater dive, usually implying the use of an alternative breathing gas supply.
9. (transitive, idiomatic, skateboarding) To fail badly; to fall off a skateboard.
10. (intransitive, idiomatic, surfing) To abandon one's surfboard when faced with a large or perilous wave.

下位語

• (leave an aircraft while in flight): eject

派生語

• bailout, bail-out

アナグラム

• obitual, tabouli

語源

Deverbal from bail out.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbeɪlˌaʊt/

名詞

bailout (plural bailouts)

1. A rescue, especially a financial rescue.

   Coordinate term: bail-in

   The government bailout of that corporation is going to cost the taxpayers a hundred billion dollars.

   • 2016, Otmar Issing, former ECB chief economist, Euro 'house of cards' to collapse, warns ECB prophet‎:

     "The no bailout' clause is violated every day."

   • 2020 November 18, “Network News: London 'bailout' achieved with just minutes to spare”, in Rail, page 10:

     The funding arrangement was described by the Government as a "bailout".

2. The process of exiting an aircraft while in flight.
   • 1972, Popular Mechanics, volume 138, number 3, page 193:

     Bailouts from side doors are risky because the slipstream may carry a chutist into the plane's tail section.

3. (underwater diving) A backup supply of air in scuba diving.
4. (firefighting) The situation where a firefighter uses equipment to escape a structure where fire has proven uncontrollable.

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関連する語

• bail out (verb)

参考

• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

アナグラム

• obitual, tabouli