bailment

1. 1.

   the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee

   Broaderdelivery

Other forms of bailment

plural

bailments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bailment

What does bailment mean?

bailment means "the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee".

How many syllables are in bailment?

bailment has 2 syllables and divides as bail-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.