Definitions
Etymologies
- bail + out (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Biggest Heist in History yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Biggest Heist in History'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Bush\'s bailout of cronies has not worked; only banks not needing a \'bailout\' have gotten one; the confidence in the economy and stocks have been shattered!”
“Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell used the term bailout 'eleven times in one floor speech.”
The Huffington Post: Dave Helfert: For Most People, the Message Is the Policy
“Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell used the term bailout' eleven times in one floor speech.”
The Huffington Post: Dave Helfert: For Most People, the Message Is the Policy
“To use the term bailout to describe this issue is misleading andwrong.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Conservatives for Rent — “Brown Bailout” Edition:
“They do not mention it in the letter, or suggest anything to the effect of: ‘we agree with you on substance but are concerned about your tactical use of the term bailout and think a straightforward effort to engage grassroots conservatives would be more honest and effective in opposing this legislation’, then their participation in a letter decrying that strategy would be quite natural, but no hint of this appears in the letter.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Conservatives for Rent — “Brown Bailout” Edition:
“While I respect concern about diluting the term bailout– I think the government intervention in the labor markets a far more egregious problem than the a squabble over the use of the term.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Conservatives for Rent — “Brown Bailout” Edition:
“ROMNEY: Well, the term bailout has been applied to a number of different things.”
“In fact, the use of the term bailout should be banned.”
Road to November: In Bellevue, Neb., ‘Mad About Everything’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“But you're not going to hear the term bailout very much because that is a very loaded term.”
“A good lesson from Northern Rock in Britain might be that the bailout is an expensive way of delaying nationalization.”
Matthew Yglesias » The Worst Option, Except for All the Others
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bailout’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
acolyte, archrival, backhander, backlash, baksheesh, bashing, boo, bribery, cadre, chicanery, clash, coercion and 256 more...
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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My Little Phonies
Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
juggernaught, flamboyant, cuddly maggot, astrobleme, agroof, windburn, poshlost, crucifer, feedbag, dunderwhelp, nebelwerfer, bliss ninny and 453 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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the new economy
frightening
zombie banks, toxic asset, zombie bank, foreclosure, giant, bailout, mortgage, paycheck to paycheck, rent, stimulus, aig, market and 3 more...
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Public List: Signs of the Times
Words or phrases that are immediately understood now but would have seemed puzzling not too long ago.
Not to be confused with uselessness' Sign of the Times list.mysterious white ..., school shooting, global warming, culture wars, radical islam, car bombing, suicide bomber, bailout, political detainee, greenhouse gases, family values, social lubricant and 1 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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2008 in Review
A list of words I've compiled which happen to have something to do with the events of 2008. I just needed to put them somewhere.
jai ho, flurge, vpilf, staycation, collapse, clusterfuck, partisan, slumdog, maverick, snuggie, change, bailout
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American Dialect Society Word of the ...
1990-2009
bushlips, mother of all, Not!, information super..., cyber, morph, web, newt, mom, millenium bug, e-, y2k and 12 more...
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Weekly Words (Oct 5, 2008)
I am using Mechanical Turk to collect “words of the week†from 100 different people.
nauseous, bildungsroman, stabby, bored, faith, crisis, positive, hectic, friendly, dogs, easy, awesome and 75 more...
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Spanish Civil War, unknown words foun...
ensue, unleash, unlead, smuggle, estate, household, bailout, bailiff, ease, steward, teeming, cling and 17 more...
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Merriam Webster 2008 Word of the Year...
Won by bailout
turmoil, misogyny, rogue, precipice, trepidation, bipartisan, maverick, socialism, vet, bailout
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economic crisis supplementary vocabulary
relevant words in addition to the controlled vocabulary
taxes, deficit, bailout, depression, reinvestment, layoff, labor, earnings, loan, finance
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bailout.
bilby I keep hearing toxic. As in toxic assets, "the government has decided to shore up toxic loans", etc. Oct 10, 2008
chained_bear Oh yeah. I forgot. m at work!) Oct 9, 2008
reesetee Oh, but don't forget: It's not a bailout. It's an effort to fix the problem of a frozen asset class.
*sigh* Oct 9, 2008
chained_bear I think this says it all. Oct 9, 2008
bilby There's an eye chart in an optometrist in Wall St that reads:
B A I L
O U T
E R Sep 30, 2008
Prolagus I have a printer at home, moll. Sep 30, 2008
mollusque Just waiting for "bailouter" to appear in print so I can add it to panvocalics. Sep 30, 2008