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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 bail·ment /ˈbe(ə)lmənt/
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bail·ment n.
 1. Law The action of bailing a person accused.
    Bailment . . . is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law.   --Dalton.
 2. Law A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.
 Note:In a general sense it is sometimes used as comprehending all duties in respect to property.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 bailment
      n : the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to
          the bailee