Definitions for bailout

bailout bail·out

Spelling: [beyl-out]
IPA: /ˈbeɪlˌaʊt/

Bailout is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in bailout (abilotu).

Definitions for bailout

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 bailout

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

Examples for bailout

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for bailout
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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