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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The handing over of control over, or possession of, personal property by one person, the bailor, to another, the bailee, for a specific purpose upon which the parties have agreed.
2. 2
   the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee wordnet
3. 3
   Bail. obsolete

Etymology

From bail + -ment.

Related phrases

handing overpersonal property

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