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| 1. | (intr) to make an emergency parachute jump from an aircraft |
| 2. | informal (tr) to help (a person, organization, etc) out of a predicament: the government bailed the company out |
| 3. | informal (intr) to escape from a predicament |
| bale out or bale out | |
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| bale out | |
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| remove (water) from a boat by dipping and throwing over the side [syn: bail out] |