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Jailing vs Bailing - What's the difference?

jailing | bailing |

As verbs the difference between jailing and bailing

is that jailing is present participle of lang=en while bailing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between jailing and bailing

is that jailing is an instance of a person being jailed while bailing is the act by which something is bailed.

jailing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of a person being jailed.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 22, author=Kevin Baker, title=Blood on the Street, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings , blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.}}

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    bailing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is bailed.
  • * Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages
    • He took a bucket and bailed the muddy stuff out right to the bottom, and let it fill up to be again bailed out. After three bailings the water came in cold, sweet, and pure as crystal.