Bailout: Merriam Webster's word of the year 2008
Bailout easily took top honors as Merriam-Webster's word of the year 2008.
Bailout, defined in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition as "a rescue from financial distress," received the highest intensity of lookups on Merriam-Webster Online over the shortest period of time.
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