bail out
纾解,保释金,保释,救助
Definitions
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- : the act of parachuting from an aircraft, especially to escape a crash, fire, etc.
- : an instance of coming to the rescue, especially financially: a government bailout of a large company.
- : an alternative, additional choice, or the like: If the highway is jammed, you have two side roads as bailouts.
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- : of, relating to, or consisting of means for relieving an emergency situation: bailout measures for hard-pressed smallbusinesses.
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Examples
Weeks after a federal bailout helped Metro veer away from a fiscal crisis, the transit agency plans to borrow $360 million through bond sales to expedite construction projects officials say will make the system safer.
They also say the bucks are expensive bailouts for badly managed Blue States.
As head of the San Francisco Fed more than a decade ago, she sided with Wells Fargo on a question of whether banks were stable enough to resume paying dividends after the financial crisis and bank bailouts.
Experts have long feared that the weight of that ever-rising mountain of euros is so great only a Greece-like bailout can keep Italy from exiting the common currency.
The federal bailout was a needed injection for households and several industries, but it didn’t directly provide financial help to local governments served by the Metro system.
The bailout crybabies of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and all the rest are easy targets—and deserving ones, too.
Ex-AIG CEO Maurice ‘Hank’ Greenberg is in court seeking $40 billion from the government over its massive bailout.
The solution was a bailout—of AIG, and of the financial system as a whole.
In 1998, when the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management blew up, the New York Fed helped organize a $3.65 billion bailout.
Five months later, the New York Fed tried (without success) to organize a bailout of Lehman Brothers.