bailing

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What does 'bailing out' mean to you - give Greece more loans?

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The act by which something is bailed.

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noun

The act by which something is bailed.

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noun

The act by which something is bailed.

Example sentences

What does 'bailing out' mean to you - give Greece more loans?

It's reforming their economy that they haven't delivered on, unlike all other euro countries that needed bailing out.

Moreover, it's even factually false that the majority of the bailout money was used for bailing out banks.

And the money spent on bailouts since 2010 was just bailing out private banks and saddling euro taxpayers with the bill.

Or perhaps, instead of bailing them out, the Allies should have made Germany into an agrarian society with the same result.

She had promised the German taxpayer that there would be no costs bailing out Greece.

Not a whisper about how taxpayers have been surreptitiously bailing out banks, and not Greece.

In the US, states aren't responsible for bailing out banks the Federal Reserve is.

And that's the whole premise of not bailing Greece out on Greek terms, right?

That bailing them out doesn't accomplish anything if they're still on a course to rack up more debts due to unsustainable fiscal policy.

Because it goes directly to the economy rather than bailing out banks.

Until when should Europe (Germany, France, etc) keep bailing out Greece.

Quote examples

If we hadn't been doing it on a long-term continual basis, and MS ran its own economy, we'd be talking about "bailing them out".

Add a special mount option "failok" to indicate that the administrator wants the system to proceed to boot without bailing out into single user mode, even when the file system can not be successfully mounted.

I've personally taken to sliding my cursor past the top edge of the page to see if the "subscribe to our mailing list" dialog appears, in some cases bailing on the article completely just because it's not valuable enough to me to bother after that affront.

Also in more direct terms, the government "magically" made profits by bailing out AIG, GM, and so on -- so we got taxpayer money (or printed money, doesn't matter) being used to create (a) more money than was used, and (b) the net benefit of not having the economy implode together with the more arguable net benefit of (c) GM staying in business.