bailout

Help, usually money, given to save a business, organization, or country from serious trouble.

• The bank needed a bailout.
• Taxpayers paid for the airline’s bailout.
• The government refused another bailout for the struggling company.

How to use it: bailout of someone/something (The bailout of the bank cost millions.); bailout for someone/something (They approved a bailout for the airline.)

Similar words: rescue, financial rescue

Common phrases: a government bailout, a financial bailout, a bailout package

Leaving an aircraft during flight, usually by jumping out with a parachute.

• The pilot survived the bailout.
• They practised the bailout procedure before takeoff.
• A fire forced an emergency bailout over the sea.

Similar words: emergency escape

Common phrases: an emergency bailout, a successful bailout, bailout procedure

An extra supply of breathing gas carried by a diver for emergencies.

• The diver carried a bailout cylinder.
• She switched to bailout when her main system failed.
• Check your bailout before entering the water.

Similar words: emergency gas supply

Common phrases: a bailout cylinder, carry bailout, bailout gas

The act of leaving a situation or giving up a plan or responsibility.

• His sudden bailout left us short of players.
• Nobody expected her bailout from the project.
• The team struggled after their leader’s last-minute bailout.

How to use it: bailout from something (His bailout from the deal surprised everyone.)

Similar words: withdrawal, departure, abandonment

Common phrases: a sudden bailout, an early bailout, bailout from something