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What does bail mean?
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bail Noun

— A bail is an amount of money paid for the release of someone who has been arrested with the promise that he/she will appear in court for a trial. My friend had a fight with a stranger on the streets and I had to pay a bail of $12,000 for him. — A bail is a bucket or a scoop used for removing water out of a boat. We are in trouble if the boat leaks, because we forgot to bring the bail.

bail Verb

— To bail someone is to use money to get an arrested person out of prison. Sorry, I have to go and bail my father. He got arrested for his reckless driving after drinking a few bottles of beer.

bail

— noun (= bond) (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial the judge set bail at $10,000 a $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman — verb remove (water) from a vessel with a container — verb empty (a vessel) by bailing — noun the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial) he is out on bail — verb deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period — verb release after a security has been paid — verb secure the release of (someone) by providing security

Synonyms bail synonyms

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bail English » English

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Topics bail topics

What do people use bail to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Physical actions Move Pursue

Escape

Conjugation bail conjugation

How do you conjugate bail?

bail · verb

Examples bail examples

How do I use bail in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom jumped bail.
It's so typical of him to bail out at the last minute.
Tom is stuck in jail because he can't afford bail.
Tom has to wear an ankle monitor bracelet while he's out on bail.
Tom has posted bail and has been released.
Tom is arranging bail.
The judge denied me bail for no reason.

Movie subtitles

Josh, there's still time to bail.
He was released on bail but disappeared.
I'm going out to arrange your bail.
Maybe he gave the money to the sheriff to go free on bail.
If I don't come to the office bail me out of here.
Now it isn't beholden for men out on bail to be appearing before a fort making demands. If you think it'll be hurting you, then I'll stay.
It's possible that after you've told him your story, he'll be able to accept bail.
And in that case, I'm afraid an application for bail would be useless.
How much would you charge for 5,000 bail till January 3rd?
WE'LL HAVE TO BAIL OUT.
And I went bail for you, too.
The rest of you bail!
Well, I'll arrange for your bail and fine.
But I know when it's time to bail out.
Then we'll bail with our hands if we must.
Bail!
Bail faster!
Bail us out of here.
Maybe he gave the money to the sheriff to go free on bail. - Shut up, Goofy. - There's Bugs.
You struck some deals and got into trouble so you came to old Zabel to ask him to bail you out.
You just get me out of here on bail.
Bail out at 1,500.
Bail out!
We have a bail request for John Mayer.
He absolutely can't have bail.
So I recommend that you help us get John Mayer on bail.
The request to bail John Mayer, is it you, Calton, your own opinion?
Using the diplomatic practice to say that the United States requests a bail on John Mayer, is a disrespectful move, but it's not like he isn't getting a trial.
A bail on John Mayer will have a big influence on the trial. He'll definitely escape to the third country during his bail.
Isn't the deciding date of his bail consent 2 weeks later?
They released me on a half a million dollars' bail.
How'd you squirm out of New York? - Jumped bail.
He needs the money for bail.
When they threw me in the cooler and I had a chance to get out on bail, what'd you do?
His bail's set for 10 grand, ain't it?

News and current affairs

Any thought that the anti-terror coalition will be able to bail out fast (as the West did when it abandoned Afghanistan to its fate after the Soviet withdrawal ten years ago) should be forgotten.
Blindly pumping the current bail-out billions into old industries and exhausted economic models will be throwing good money after bad while mortgaging our children's future.
Meanwhile, the ability to backstop, ring-fence, and bail out banks and other financial institutions is constrained by politics and near-insolvent sovereigns' inability to absorb additional losses from their banking systems.
A systemic crisis that simultaneously hits a large number of medium-sized banks would put just as much pressure on governments to bail out the system as would a crisis that hits a couple of large banks.
She faced public skepticism about using German funds to bail out the Greek economy.
Debt write-downs and guarantees will inevitably bloat Germany's government debt, as the authorities are forced to bail out German banks (and probably some neighboring countries' banks).
But no one will bail out these super-sovereigns if the sovereigns prove to be insolvent.
Similarly, super-sovereigns cannot continue to bail out distressed sovereigns that are insolvent rather than illiquid.
Yet when the Icelandic banks failed, the British and Dutch authorities had to bail out local depositors.
Otherwise, people will build on flood plains in the belief that their government, or the governments of the world, will feel obligated to bail them out, thereby insuring, in effect, bad risks that should not be taken.
Why were billions of dollars available to bail-out banks, but a few million dollars for food and fuel subsidies for Indonesia's poor could not be spared?
Yet if the provider of such a service goes bankrupt or runs into difficulties, there is little likelihood that any national government would be called on to bail it out.
Why, then, should ordinary taxpayers foot the bill to bail out the financial industry?
Because supervisors' decisions affect individuals' property rights - and their actions or omissions can put taxpayers on the hook to bail out banks - governments, parliaments, and the courts are bound to hold the watchdogs on a tight leash.
But we all know that these countries and their national banks were able to spend trillions of dollars in a few months to bail out their bankers, who earned super-profits when the going was good.
I argued for this during East Asia's crisis; the IMF argued against me, preferring its big-bail-out strategy.
Asian governments borrowed heavily from the International Monetary Fund to bail out their crumbling financial systems.
Official resources currently are sufficient to bail out Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, but not to prevent a self-fulfilling run on the short-term sovereign and financial liabilities of Spain and other potentially distressed eurozone members.
It is surprising how readily politicians of all parties - even strong ideological defenders of the unregulated market - accepted the idea that the state should bail out banks and insurance companies when they got into trouble.
Operating on the assumption that the government will back them - or bail them out if they fail - they can afford to be cavalier.
The fact that an even larger catastrophe would have resulted had governments not been willing to draw on taxpayer funds to bail out the banks was an additional blow to those who have told us to trust the unregulated market.
And yet the same policymakers believe that the rest of the world should bail out the eurozone.
China has the balance-sheet strength to bail them out, but the authorities would then face a choice: embrace reform or rely once again on leverage to stimulate the economy.

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