government bailout
noun [C] GOVERNMENT, FINANCEDefinition
› a situation in which a government pays or lends money to save a company or industry from failing: The company's huge losses forced it to seek a government bailout.government bailout of sth The state ended up with the holding company under a government bailout of the bank, which was posting big losses.
(Definition of government bailout noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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