rescue

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  1. transitive verb To set free, as from danger or imprisonment; save. See Synonyms at save1.
  2. transitive verb Law To take from legal custody by force.
  3. noun An act of rescuing; a deliverance.

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  • He said the rescue is aimed at helping the country, not individual companies. —  ClickOnDetroit.com - ClickOnDetroit.com News
  • For many of Allentown's residents, the rescue is an occasion for anger, even if that feeling is at times blunted by fatigue and resignation.
  • U.S. Rep. John W. Olver, D-Amherst, said in a statement the rescue is a "$700 billion blank check" written on taxpayer's money by the federal government. —  Sentinel & Enterprise Most Viewed
  • But wait: riding to the rescue are all the heroes from festivals past, an army of art-house darlings summoned home to save the day. —  The Guardian World News
  • "A sense of optimism that a rescue could be arranged today dimmed as a growing sense of gloom descended on Wall Street," the Journal reports: "Under the terms of the proposal, which could still blow up, all the major Wall Street firms would pitch in $30 billion total to purchase Lehman's bad real estate assets and create what's knows as a 'bad bank.'" —  Dealbreaker
 

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rescue:   rescues ·  rescuing ·  rescued
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescourre : re-, re- + escourre, to shake (from Latin excutere : ex-, ex- + quatere, to shake; see kwēt- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Early modern English also rescue, reskew; from Middle English reskewen, rescouen, rescowen, from Old French rescorre, rescourre, reskeure, resquerre (Middle Latin reflex rescuerc) =Italian riscuotere (Middle Latin reflex rescutere), rescue, from Latin re-, again, + excutere (past participle excussus), shake off, drive away, from ex-, off, + quatere, shake: see quash. Cf. rescous.
  2. Early modern English also reskue, reskew; from the verb. The earlier noun was rescous, q. v.
 

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