hand-out

British  

noun

1. clothing, food, or money given to a needy person

2. a leaflet, free sample, etc, given out to publicize something

3. a statement or other document distributed to the press or an audience to confirm, supplement, or replace an oral presentation

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verb

1. to distribute

hand out Idioms  

1. Distribute, as in The teacher handed out the test papers. [Late 1800s] For a synonym, see pass out, def. 1.

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Example Sentences

The government's backing for the DLR extension will not necessarily come with a huge cash hand-out.

From BBC

The rest is soon transferred on the donkey cart through the bustling streets to al-Mawasi, a crowded tent camp for displaced people on the coast, where dozens of field monitors supervise the hand-out.

From BBC

Taliban soldiers kept the crowd reasonably quiet, but people who were told they weren't eligible for a hand-out were angry and frightened.

From BBC

SpaceX struck first: “The Cantwell Amendment undermines the federal government procurement process, rewards Jeff Bezos with a $10 billion sole-source hand-out, and will throw NASA’s Artemis program into years of litigation,” its flier said.

From Washington Post

In a flier distributed on Capitol Hill last week, Elon Musk’s SpaceX warned that legislation now being considered would reward “Jeff Bezos with a $10 billion sole-source hand-out” that would tie up NASA’s moon plans and hand “space leadership to China.”

From Washington Post

Related Words

• bestow
• deliver
• disburse
• dispense
• disseminate
• distribute
• donate
• give away
• hand over
• present
• provide