OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 23012

bail out

Meanings (ES + gloss)
pagar la fianza
To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail money.
achicar
To remove water from a boat by scooping it out.
But it passed, leaving us up to our knees in water. 'Bail out! bail out!' shouted Job, suiting the action to the word.
auxiliar financieramente • rescatar • sacar de un apuro • socorrer financieramente
To rescue, especially financially.
Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.
Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first soldier to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most c…
saltar [del avión]
To exit an aircraft while in flight.
Holmes bailed out of his fighter and parachuted onto an apartment house.
Make sure your parachute harness is securely fastened before you bail out!
abandonar • retirarse
To leave (or not attend at all) a place or a situation, especially quickly or when the situation has become undesirable; to abandon (something).
I'm going to bail out of class today.
She's bailing out on the project.
Phrases
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