What is The Meaning of Bail Out? English Phrasal Verb

What is the meaning of 'bailout'? Bailout is a finance term. It means to give a company money even though that company is doing poorly. You will hear it often when talking to people about the financial crisis of 2007-2008 in the business world of English. Usually, an investor will bail out a company because they think they can take the company from poor performance to good performance, but people start to get angry when governments start bailing out companies. In the U.S. In 2008, many banks were bailed out by the federal government. The feds - government people - thought that if the banks failed, the world economy would collapse. Whether it would or not, we may never know now, because the U.S. Government gave money to the banks. Bail out comes from when you are in a boat that is filling with water. If the boat fills up with too much water, it will sink to the bottom. By taking a container and filling it up with water, then quickly dumping the water outside the boat, you can remove the water inside the boat and keep it floating longer. Just imagine the boat is a company, and the water is money problems. You use bailout as a noun (The store got a bailout) or a verb. “We had to bail out the store.” If you enjoyed this video help others enjoy it by adding captions in your native language - Outro Video Credit: “Outro Like, Comment, and Subscribe” by Móm Đặc Biệt (Youtube Creative Commons License) Photo Credits: Bailout by Del Goodchild on Flickr (attribution 2.0 license) - ****** Links: Phrasal Verb Playlist: ****** Music: Capital - Silent Partner (YouTube Audio Library) - ****** WEBSITE: ****** (Join the EMAIL LIST for Course and Lesson information.) Twitter: ****** SUBSCRIBE to this channel for more EnglishWin video lessons like this. CLICK THE BELL for alerts when a new video is ready for you. Most Important — SHARE this video with your English-learning friends.

In this phrasal verb video, we are going to learn what is the meaning of 'bail out.' 'There's one thing that we can all agree on... we all hated the bank bailouts. There's one thing we can all agree on. We all hated the bank bailouts." "The only way to save the company is to bail it out. The only way to save the company is to bail it out." What does 'bailout' mean? Well, a 'bailout,' or 'to bail a company out,' means to give a failing company money so that it can continue its operations and, hopefully, the situation will change. Now, most of the time, a company is bailed out when an investor... you know, somebody with a lot of money... decides they are going to put their money into the failing business and change it from a poor- performing business to a well-performing business. You know, it's going to make a lot of money. But people get really upset when governments bail out companies. So when a government sees a failing business, and then throws money at that business, people think the government cannot turn that business into a successful one. And furthermore, even if they could, they are taking a risk. If it's a regular investor with his own money, that's okay. It's his risk. But when a government is bailing out a company, the government is risking the tax dollars - the tax money - of everybody who lives and pays taxes to that government. And that's why people got really upset in 2007-2008, when the United States government bailed out the big banks when they were about to fail. You see, people thought if the government did not bail out the banks that the world economy would become bad... that we would have a depression... really bad times. Now we'll never know because the government took American tax money and threw it at the big banks. And this also creates a situation: the situation is... you give somebody money after they made a bad decision... they may continue to make the same bad decisions, and it doesn't change anything. That's another thing that worries people. So, imagine you're in a boat. The boat is sinking underwater, right? And the reason the boat is sinking is because water is going into the boat. Maybe there's a hole in the bottom of the boat. So, how do you keep the boat from sinking? Well, you take a container - like a water bottle, or a bucket - and you start taking that bucket, filling it with water that's in the boat, and moving the water outside the boat. That way, the boat does not fill up with water, and it doesn't sink as fast. And that's where bailout comes from. Think of the boat as a company, and water as money problems, right? You can use bailout as a noun, as in, 'The company got a bailout.' Or, you can use it as a verb, like this: 'We need to bail out the organization.' Did this help you? I hope it did. Please LIKE, SHARE, and SUBSCRIBE to this channel. It will help me a lot, and it will help EnglishWin grow to the top of the English learning community on YouTube. Here's the Phrasal Verb playlist, and one more video I think you might like. I'll see you over on those lessons. Take care, English Winners!