Meaning of "bail" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BAIL

From Old French: custody, from baillier to hand over, from Latin bāiulāre to carry burdens, from bāiulus carrier, of obscure origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BAIL

bail  [beɪl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BAIL

Bail is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb bail in English.

WHAT DOES BAIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bail

Traditionally, bail is some form of property deposited or pledged to a court to persuade it to release a suspect from jail, on the understanding that the suspect will return for trial or forfeit the bail. In some cases bail money may be returned at the end of the trial, if all court appearances are made, regardless of whether the person is found guilty or not guilty of the crime accused. If a bondsman is used and a surety bond has been obtained, the fee for that bond is the fee for the insurance policy purchased and is not refundable. In some countries granting bail is common. Even in such countries, however, bail may not be offered by some courts under some circumstances; for instance, if the accused is considered likely not to appear for trial regardless of bail. Legislatures may also set out certain crimes to be not bailable, such as capital crimes.

Definition of bail in the English dictionary

The first definition of bail in the dictionary is a sum of money by which a person is bound to take responsibility for the appearance in court of another person or himself or herself, forfeited if the person fails to appear. Other definition of bail is the person or persons so binding themselves; surety. Bail is also the system permitting release of a person from custody where such security has been taken.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BAIL

PRESENT

Present

I bail

you bail

he/she/it bails

we bail

you bail

they bail

Present continuous

I am bailing

you are bailing

he/she/it is bailing

we are bailing

you are bailing

they are bailing

Present perfect

I have bailed

you have bailed

he/she/it has bailed

we have bailed

you have bailed

they have bailed

Present perfect continuous

I have been bailing

you have been bailing

he/she/it has been bailing

we have been bailing

you have been bailing

they have been bailing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I bailed

you bailed

he/she/it bailed

we bailed

you bailed

they bailed

Past continuous

I was bailing

you were bailing

he/she/it was bailing

we were bailing

you were bailing

they were bailing

Past perfect

I had bailed

you had bailed

he/she/it had bailed

we had bailed

you had bailed

they had bailed

Past perfect continuous

I had been bailing

you had been bailing

he/she/it had been bailing

we had been bailing

you had been bailing

they had been bailing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will bail

you will bail

he/she/it will bail

we will bail

you will bail

they will bail

Future continuous

I will be bailing

you will be bailing

he/she/it will be bailing

we will be bailing

you will be bailing

they will be bailing

Future perfect

I will have bailed

you will have bailed

he/she/it will have bailed

we will have bailed

you will have bailed

they will have bailed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been bailing

you will have been bailing

he/she/it will have been bailing

we will have been bailing

you will have been bailing

they will have been bailing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would bail

you would bail

he/she/it would bail

we would bail

you would bail

they would bail

Conditional continuous

I would be bailing

you would be bailing

he/she/it would be bailing

we would be bailing

you would be bailing

they would be bailing

Conditional perfect

I would have bail

you would have bail

he/she/it would have bail

we would have bail

you would have bail

they would have bail

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been bailing

you would have been bailing

he/she/it would have been bailing

we would have been bailing

you would have been bailing

they would have been bailing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you bail
we let´s bail
you bail

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to bail

Past participle

bailed

Present Participle

bailing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «BAIL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bail» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of bail

bond · dip · empty · guarantee · guaranty · indemnity · ladle · pledge · scoop · security · surety · warranty

TRANSLATION OF BAIL

Find out the translation of bail to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of bail from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bail» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 保释
• Translator English - Spanish: fianza
• English: bail
• Translator English - Hindi: जमानत
• Translator English - Arabic: كَفَالَة
• Translator English - Russian: залог
• Translator English - Portuguese: fiança
• Translator English - Bengali: জামিন
• Translator English - French: caution
• Translator English - Malay: Ikat jamin
• Translator English - German: Freilassung gegen Kaution
• Translator English - Japanese: 保釈金
• Translator English - Korean: 보석
• Translator English - Javanese: Tanggungan
• Translator English - Vietnamese: tiền bảo lãnh
• Translator English - Tamil: ஜாமீன்
• Translator English - Marathi: जामीन
• Translator English - Turkish: kefalet
• Translator English - Italian: cauzione
• Translator English - Polish: kaucja
• Translator English - Ukrainian: застава
• Translator English - Romanian: cauțiune
• Translator English - Greek: εγγύηση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: borgtog
• Translator English - Swedish: borgen
• Translator English - Norwegian: kausjon

10 QUOTES WITH «BAIL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bail.

1

Lamar Alexander

We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

2

Anna Benson

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

3

Stephanie Cutter

Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.

4

Brad Garrett

There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.

5

Tom Heinsohn

Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.

6

Arthur Laffer

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

7

Dennis Moore

I don't want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away.

8

Lewis Mumford

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

9

Tim Pawlenty

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.

10

Mike Pence

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BAIL»

Discover the use of bail in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bail and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Commercial Bail Bonding: A Comparison of Common Law Alternatives

The only comparative analysis of its kind, this book is valuable to scholars of criminal justice, criminology, comparative law, political science, and sociology, as well as to criminal justice reformers and professionals.

F. E. Devine, 1991

Bail: A Practitioner's Guide

Of interest or benefit to: Legal practitioners, Prosecutors, Judicial officers, Police officials, Academics, Students

John Van der Berg, 2001

Bail Yourself Out: How You Can Emerge Strong from the World ...

Laitman introduces several extraordinary concepts that weave into a complete solution: 1) The crisis is essentially not financial, but psychological: People have stopped trusting each other, and where there is no trust there is no trade, ...

Michael Laitman, 2009

Bail Support Schemes for Adults

Based on up-to-date research, this book will make a valuable contribution to an under-researched area and provide useful insights for policy makers and practitioners.

Anthea Hucklesby, 2011

Bail Law in Victoria: A Practical Guide to the Law, ...

Professor George Hampel, formerly Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and Daniel Gurvich of the Melbourne Bar, identify and address all the issues judges, magistrates and advocates in Victoria need to understand.

George Hampel, Daniel Gurvich, 2003

Criminal Procedure II: From Bail to Jail

Part of the time-tested Examples & Explanations series, Richard G. Singer's Examples & Explanations: Criminal Procedure II, for the second-semester Criminal Procedure course, covers all of the post-arrest, "bail-to-jail" topics. the Second ...

Richard G. Singer, 2008

Human Rights and Bail

Restricted bail to habitual offenders Clause (ii) to sub-section (1) of Sec. 437 provides that if any person who has been previously convicted of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life or has been previously convicted on two ...

R. Sharma, 2002

Criminal Justice in America

Ten Percent Cash Bail Although ROR is a useful alternative to money bail, judges are unwilling to release some defendants on their own recognizance. Some states (Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oregon, and Pennsylvania) have percentage ...

George Cole, Christopher Smith, 2007

Procedures in Criminal Law in Kenya

An accused person who has been released on bail on certain conditions is duty bound to observe those conditions failure to which his bail may be cancelled and be ordered to pay the sums of money in the recognizance (bond) into the court.

Momanyi Bwonwong'a, 1994

Camouflage: Stories

In a collection by the author of Homesickness, a man decides to photograph everyone alive, a father spies on his friends from a treehouse, a dentist recognizes his estranged wife in a famous painting, new neighbors impact a brother and ...

Murray Bail, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BAIL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bail is used in the context of the following news items.

5 days after allegedly shooting at Camden officer, suspect's bail …

CCPD officer Prince Reed, seated at the front of five rows of police brothers and sisters, looked on as Bennett, 21, saw his bail raised to $2 ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»

No bail for rat poison accused mom

Durban - The woman accused of trying to murder her two children by lacing their porridge with rat poison has been denied bail. «Independent Online, Jul 15»

'Justice for Gibbo': Big rally hits out at Wyong footy player's alleged …

A MASS rally at Toukley on the Central Coast has called for the tightening of bail laws in the wake of the death of popular Wyong rugby league ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»

Wake DA a witness in bail bondsman's trial

Golder was one of four people indicted last year in an alleged scheme to allow bail bondsmen to get out of paying the court system when ... «WRAL.com, Jul 15»

Woman accused of leaving baby on roadside held on $500000 bail

Sandra Clara McClary is shown in an undated photo provided by the Anne Arundel, Md., County Police Department. A baby was left on the side ... «Calgary Sun, Jul 15»

Prison pays part of bail to send inmate home

A disruptive inmate who got on to the roof of Cloverhill Prison to collect drugs had nearly half of his bail paid by the jail when his grandmother ... «Herald, Jul 15»

Foreign national taxi driver accused of rape granted €20000 bail

He was initially refused bail at a special sitting of Naas District Court the following day when Det Garda Paul Carney cited the seriousness of ... «Sunday World, Jul 15»

$1M bail in cop car theft, chase through Bergen County

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS — A judge set bail at $1 million for a Connecticut man who allegedly carjacked a Mercedes, stole a police car and struck ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»

Rape, murder accused denied bail

Durban - A 34-year-old man accused of raping and murdering two women was denied bail in the Camperdown Magistrate's Court in ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»

No bail for pharmacy break-in suspect

One of Summers' co-accused, 35-year-old Lloyd Scott White of Bonavista, was granted bail Friday. White and Summers, who lives in Portugal ... «Newfoundland and Labrador Compass, Jul 15»