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  • 111Bail à convenant — ● Bail à convenant synonyme de bail à domaine congéable …

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  • 112bail-out — ˈbail out also bailout noun [countable] FINANCE providing money to a person or organization to get them out of financial trouble: • Losses totaling hundreds of millions of dollars led to an expensive bailout by its parent company …

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  • 113bail, bale —    Bail is a prisoners bond, the pieces that rest atop the stumps in cricket, and the act of scooping water. Bale is a bundle, as of cotton or hay. You bail out a boat and out of an aircraft. A malicious person wears a baleful expression …

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  • 114bail, bale —    Bail is a prisoners bond, the pieces that rest atop the stumps in cricket, and the act of scooping water. Bale is a bundle, as of cotton or hay. You bail out a boat and out of an aircraft. A malicious person wears a baleful expression …

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  • 115bail someone out — bail something out the state was called in to bail out the foundering housing project Syn: rescue, save, relieve; finance, help (out), assist, aid; informal save someone s bacon/neck/skin …

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  • 116bail out — [v1] help aid, deliver, release, relieve, rescue, spring; concept 110 Ant. ignore, refuse bail out [v2] escape flee, quit, retreat, withdraw; concept 102 Ant. stay …

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  • 117bail-dock — bailˈ dock or baleˈ dock noun A room at the Old Bailey, London, in which prisoners were formerly kept during the trials • • • Main Entry: ↑bail …

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  • 118bail|iff — «BAY lihf», noun. 1. an officer of a court of law who has charge of jurors and guards prisoners while they are in the courtroom. 2. an assistant to a sheriff. A bailiff executes writs and processes and makes arrests. 3. in England: a) an overseer …

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  • 119bail|out — or bail out «BAYL OWT», noun. 1. the action of bailing out of an aircraft. 2. an emergency rescue or relief, as through financial aid: »It [a country] presumably depends on another bailout by the U.S. (Time) …

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  • 120bail somebody out of something — ˌbail sbˈout (of sth) derived to rescue sb from a difficult situation • The government had to bail the company out of financial difficulty. • Ryan s late goal bailed out his team. Main entry: ↑bailderived …

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