bailoutnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈbeɪl.aʊt/us/ˈbeɪl.aʊt/the act of helping a person or organization that is in difficulty, usually by giving or giving or lending money:
Three years of huge losses forced the bank to seek a government bailout.
The administration assembled the $50 billion emergency bailout package to ease a financial crisis in Mexico.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Backing, supporting & defending
- -backed
- argumentation
- bale
- bale out
- bear
- behind every great/successful man there stands a woman idiom
- buttress
- carry
- defensible
- endorse
- espouse
- fight your corner idiom
- speak
- stake
- stand by sb
- stand by sth
- stand shoulder to shoulder with sb idiom
- strike
- sympathize
- sympathy
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