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bale/bail

bale (bāl)

Noun

    • A large package of raw or finished material tightly bound with twine or wire and often wrapped: a bale of hay.

Verb. Transitive

    • To wrap in a bale or in bales: a machine that bales cotton.

bail (bāl)

Noun

    • 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 provided by the payment of such money.
    • A person who provides this security.

Verb. Transitive

    • To secure the release of by providing security.
    • To release (a person) for whom security has been paid.
    • Informal. To extricate from a difficult situation: always bailing you out of trouble.
    • To transfer (property) to another for a special purpose but without permanent transference of ownership.

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