Usually means: Temporary transfer of personal property.
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  1. bailment: Merriam-Webster
  2. bailment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bailment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bailment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bailment: Vocabulary.com
  6. bailment: Wordnik
  7. bailment: Wiktionary
  8. bailment: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. bailment: Dictionary.com
  10. Bailment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Bailment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. bailment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. bailment: Rhymezone
  14. Bailment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. bailment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. bailment: FreeDictionary.org
  17. bailment: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. bailment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. bailment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. bailment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  21. bailment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. bailment: Merriam-Webster

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  1. bailment: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. bailment: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. bailment: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. Bailment: Investopedia
  12. bailment: Legal dictionary
  13. bailment: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. bailment: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bailment)

noun:  (law) The handing over of control over, or possession of, personal property by one person, the bailor, to another, the bailee, for a specific purpose upon which the parties have agreed.
noun:  (obsolete) Bail.

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