"Bailout"
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How "Bailout" shows up at work
In corporate settings it shows up in postmortems and budget reviews, sometimes with admiration and sometimes with resentment depending on whether your division received one. The word carries weight precisely because it implies the alternative was collapse.
Without a bailout from the parent company, the division would have folded last year.
Without emergency funding from the parent company, the division would have folded last year.
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