bailout
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Synonyms & Antonyms for bailout
Synonyms: Verb
bail, begone, book [slang], bug off, bug out, bugger off [British slang], buzz (off), clear off [chiefly British], clear out, cut out, depart, dig out, exit, get, get off, go, go off, move, pack (up or off), part, peel off, pike (out or off), pull out, push off, push on, quit, run along, sally (forth), scarper [British], shove (off), step (along), take off, vamoose, walk out
Antonyms: Verb
arrive, come, show up, turn up
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Examples of bailout in a Sentence
Noun
government bailouts of large corporationsVerb
if the meeting seems like it will never end, find an excuse to bail out the government bailed out the savings and loan industry
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Greece eventually signed a third consecutive bailout agreement, and the banking restrictions were later gradually dismantled. — BostonGlobe.com, "Stories you may have missed from the world of business," 3 Sep. 2019 Jake Hartbarger also is healthy and a bailout weapon for MSU’s offense with field-flipping punts. — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, "Michigan State football stock watch: Jacub Panasiuk adds pass-rush presence," 1 Sep. 2019 Greece eventually signed up to a third consecutive bailout agreement and the banking restrictions were later gradually dismantled. — Washington Post, "Greece ends crisis-era capital controls," 30 Aug. 2019 Today, the countries that took bailouts and reformed all boast decent growth rates and fewer vulnerabilities. — Geoffrey Smith, Fortune, "Are Fears of a German Recession Overblown? 5 Reasons Not to Worry—Yet," 30 Aug. 2019 The public outrage over bailouts of giant companies during the 2008 financial crisis may have actually forced elites to share some of the burden, as governments hiked tax rates on the rich, according to a new paper. — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, "The financial crisis forced governments to hike taxes on the rich, a new study finds," 27 Aug. 2019 In the real world, not Friedman's idealized one, CEOs use corporate influence and money to curry Congressional support for tax cuts, deregulation and bailouts. — Jeffrey Sachs For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, "CEOs are finally admitting to shortchanging society. It's about time," 23 Aug. 2019 There’s always a Big Tech bailout waiting in the wings. — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, "With Washington watching, will Facebook and Google keep buying startups?," 14 Aug. 2019 By September, the Fed was cutting interest rates in hopes of preventing a recession, and the government ultimately engineered a series of huge bailouts of the financial sector. — Neil Irwin, New York Times, "It’s Another Rocky August in the Markets. Does It Look Like 1998, or 2007?," 12 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bailout.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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bailout
nounFinancial Definition of bailout
What It Is
A bailout is financial help for ailing companies.
How It Works
Company XYZ is in the newspaper industry and has seen a dramatic downturn in its advertising sales. The company's board believes that if it can launch an interactive digital version of its product, which has been in development for two years, it could become a viable business again.
Company XYZ publishes the only paper in the county, and Company ABC loves the newspaper. Company ABC agrees to lend Company XYZ enough money to launch the new digital product, and it prices the loan at an interest rate below what Company XYZ could get anywhere else. Essentially, Company ABC gives Company XYZ a bailout.
Bailouts can be loans, but they can also be stock, cash, bonds, or other forms of money.
Why It Matters
Bailouts are essentially monies intended to get companies out of trouble. Often, governments give bailouts to companies whose bankruptcies would cost what the government deems "too many jobs" or cause "too much" damage.
Bailouts are a challenge to capitalism in its purest sense. Critics of bailouts argue, for example, that companies should be left to succeed and fail on their own merits, and that supply and demand in the free markets will always determine the worth of goods and services. Supporters of bailouts argue that bailouts are sometimes the lesser of two evils when it comes to a company failing and displacing thousands of workers.
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