bail

noun/beɪl/

Frequency rank: #4,148 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a sum of money paid to a court to allow an accused person to be released from jail until their trial.

Illustration for the English word “bail”

Example sentence

The judge set bail at ten thousand dollars so the suspect could be released until the trial.

Synonyms & related words

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