bail out phrasal verb ( see also ↑ bail )
1 . bail somebody/something ↔ out ( also bale somebody/something ↔ out British English ) to do something to help someone out of trouble, especially financial problems:
Some local businesses have offered to bail out the museum.
Sutton bailed his team out with a goal in the last minute.
2 . bail somebody ↔ out to leave a large sum of money with a court so that someone can be let out of prison while waiting for their ↑ trial :
Clarke’s family paid £500 to bail him out.
3 . American English to escape from a plane, using a ↑ parachute SYN bale out British English
4 . bail something ↔ out ( also bale something ↔ out British English ) to remove water that has come into a boat