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BAILMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bailment mean?
• BAILMENT (noun)
The noun BAILMENT has 1 sense:
1. the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee
Familiarity information: BAILMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bailment" is a kind of...):
delivery; legal transfer; livery (the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another)
Derivation:
bail (deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period)
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