Dictionary
bail
Meaning
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- Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- The person providing such payment.
- A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- A person who bails water out of a boat.
- (obsolete) Custody; keeping.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/beɪ(ə)l/
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