BAILMENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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