fiança — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bail noun A sum of money paid to secure someone's release from custody while they await trial.
Senses
fiança is used for these senses in English:
- bail (countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- bail (legal, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- suretyship (legal) An accessory agreement through which one binds oneself for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for one's debt, default or miscarriage; the assumption of liability for the obligations of another.
bail — full definition
- noun A sum of money paid to secure someone's release from custody while they await trial.
- verb To scoop water out of a boat.
- verb To leave abruptly or back out of a plan.