Usually means: Provide financial assistance to rescue.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word bail out:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. bail out: Merriam-Webster
  2. bail out, bail out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bail out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bail out: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bail-Out, Bail-out, bail-out: Wordnik
  6. bail out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bail-out, bail out: Wiktionary
  8. bail-out, bail out: Dictionary.com
  9. Bail out (finance), Bail out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. bail out: Rhymezone
  11. bail out: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. bail out: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bail out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. bail out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Bail out: World Wide Words
  16. bail out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bail out: Legal dictionary
  2. bail out: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bail out: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bail out: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bail out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. bail out: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. bail out: Golfer's Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bail out)

verb:  (transitive) To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail money.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To remove water from a boat by scooping it out.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To rescue, especially financially.
verb:  (intransitive, usually with of) To exit an aircraft while in flight.
verb:  (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).
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, slang, with on) To abandon (someone) when that person faces difficulties.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, colloquial, with of) To sell all or part of one's holdings in stocks, real estate, a business, etc.
verb:  (intransitive, with of) To make an unscheduled voluntary termination of an underwater dive, usually implying the use of an alternative breathing gas supply.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic, skateboarding) To fail badly; to fall off a skateboard.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, surfing) To abandon one's surfboard when faced with a large or perilous wave.

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