bond out

present singular third person bonds out · participle present bonding out · participle past bonded out · past bonded out

1. ambitransitiveTo bail out by means of a bail bond.

   I need money to bond out.

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   My mom said she could bond me out.

   In the August election of 1874 I bonded out of jail eighteen colored men that had been in there, and there has not one of them been tried yet, and they never will be.

   1877, Report No. 704 of proceedings In the Senate of the United States, 44th Congress, 2nd Session, page 642

   In jail for killing a man, Procter Lewis is placed in a cell where he is faced with a choice: he can be bonded out of jail by Roger Medlow, the owner of the plantation where he lives, or he can serve his time in the penitentiary.

   1995, Herman Beavers, Wrestling angels into song: the fictions of Ernest J. Gaines, page 28

   And no, you cannot drive her down to the bank to see if her new AFDC card is activated and drop her kids off at school for her because she didn't think to get her car before he bonded out of jail.

   2001, Elaine J. Lawless, Women escaping violence: empowerment through narrative, page xxi