Definitions for bailouts

bailouts bail·out

Spelling: [beyl-out]
IPA: /ˈbeɪlˌaʊt/

Bailouts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 390 anagrams from letters in bailouts (abilostu).

Definitions for bailouts

noun

  1. the act of parachuting from an aircraft, especially to escape a crash, fire, etc.
  2. an instance of coming to the rescue, especially financially:
  3. an alternative, additional choice, or the like:

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or consisting of means for relieving an emergency situation:

Origin of bailouts

First recorded in 1950-55; noun, adj. use of verb phrase bail out

Examples for bailouts

Five months later, the New York Fed tried (without success) to organize a bailout of Lehman Brothers.

It then helped design and implement the bailout of insurer AIG, which, like Bear Stearns, was not regulated by the Fed.

And so we heard a lot of tough talk from Treasury about how next time, there wasn't going to be any bailout.

The chaos began in 1976 when the government had to apply to the IMF for a $3.9 billion bailout.

In 1998, when the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management blew up, the New York Fed helped organize a $3.65 billion bailout.

Since the bailout, GM has posted 15 consecutive quarters of profitability, and it has a very solid balance sheet.

Of those, 112 were held by Wall Street CEOs who drove their companies to bankruptcy or bailout.

Virtually all the bailout money to financial institutions and car companies was paid back.

The bailout crybabies of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and all the rest are easy targets—and deserving ones, too.

The solution was a bailout—of AIG, and of the financial system as a whole.

Word Value for bailouts
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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