Antonyms for bail
beɪlbail

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1. bail

   The first four words agree in denoting something given or deposited as an assurance of something to be given, paid, or done. An earnest is of the same kind as that to be given, a portion of it delivered in advance, as when part of the purchase-money is paid, according to the common expression, "to bind the bargain." A pledge or security may be wholly different in kind from that to be given or paid, and may greatly exceed it in value. Security may be of real or personal property — anything of sufficient value to make the creditor secure; a pledge is always of personal property or chattels. Every pawnshop contains unredeemed pledges; land, merchandise, bonds, etc., are frequently offered and accepted as security. A person may become security or surety for another's payment of a debt, appearance in court, etc.; in the latter case, he is said to become bail for that person; the person accused gives bail for himself. Gage survives only as a literary word, chiefly in certain phrases; as, "the gage of battle."

   Synonyms:
   earnest, gage, pledge, security, surety

   Preposition:
   Security for the payment of a debt; security to the state, for the prisoner, in the sum of a thousand dollars.

Matched Categories

1. • Deliver
   • Empty
   • Guarantee
   • Release
   • Remove

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1. bail, bail bond, bondnoun

   (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial

   "the judge set bail at $10,000"; "a $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman"

   Synonyms:
   bond certificate, bond paper, adherence, bail bond, chemical bond, shackle, adhesiveness, hamper, alliance, adhesion, trammel, bond, attachment

2. bailverb

   the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial)

   "he is out on bail"

   Synonyms:
   bail bond, bond

3. bailverb

   release after a security has been paid

4. bailverb

   deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period

5. bailverb

   secure the release of (someone) by providing security

6. bailverb

   empty (a vessel) by bailing

7. bailverb

   remove (water) from a vessel with a container

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1. bailnoun

   Synonyms:
   security, surety, vadium

How to use bail in a sentence?

1. Peggy Mayfield:

   A bail agent can go get the defendant and haul him back to jail, you know it commonly as a bounty hunter. Charitable bail has no authority to make that person go to court.

2. Suniya Luthar:

   We are certainly not saying that all affluent parents do this, or even that most do. But there is a sizable and vocal minority of parents who do not just bail their kids out but do it repeatedly and do it in very inappropriate circumstances, so these are the kids who then start to believe, and rightfully so, I'm not getting caught and even if I do, nothing's going to happen to me.

3. Sonia Sotomayor:

   There’s 50 million students who will benefit from this who today will struggle, many of them don’t have assets sufficient to bail them out after the pandemic.

4. Clarence Graham:

   So 'jail, no bail' gave us an opportunity to be arrested, spend the 30 days in jail without paying the money. In so doing, it would help keep the money in our treasury and not swell the treasury of the city and the county, after that, it caught on. By summer, you had kids from all over the country filling the jailhouses up.

5. Paul DiGiacomo:

   Because there are so many guns on the street, and the policies that are in place with bail reform are not working, the people of this city are unsafe, i'm calling on the governor, the Senate leader and the assembly leader to fix the laws that they broke to keep the people of this city safe.

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