0 present participle of bail
2 If someone accused of a crime is bailed, they are released until their trial after paying bail to the court:
She was yesterday bailed for three weeks on drink-driving offences.
[ + to infinitive ] He was bailed to appear at the Magistrates' Court next month.
3 to stop doing something or leave a place before something is finished:
It was so boring I bailed early.
Approximately 70% of the cost of forage production in this study was associated with labour (land preparation, planting, weeding, harvesting and bailing).
There is no question of taxpayers bailing out the local authorities involved.
All it means is that if failures occur somebody else will be bailing out.
We cannot start bailing out sub-contractors for every bankruptcy that occurs in this country, because that would bankrupt the country itself very quickly.
Seeking to hold this structure in check by some form of annual or triennial declaration of intent is like bailing out with a sieve.
I am not in favour of bailing out private developers.
It is clear that this policy is being introduced retrospectively for the sole purpose of bailing out councils to whom a pre-election pledge was given.
We even have to thank the industry for bailing out "cheap-jack" insurers.
