to give something such as information or advice to someone
to give things to different people in a group
to say officially that someone should receive a particular punishment
A three-month sentence was handed out to the teenage boy.
He departed from Pimlico homeless, his worldly possessions lumped in with his hand-out spare set of linen in a large plastic bag.
Pagan stretched a hand out over the receiver, preventing the man from picking it up.
Ralph was handing out drinks.
They won’t hand out your phone number without permission.
Unwary vagrants, too, who called at the vicarage hoping for a hand-out were often disconcerted to find themselves up on a charge.
Would you hand these papers out for me?
`I guess why he did it was, he thought I was a wino who could do with a hand-out and a few uplifting words.
hands out
handing out
handed out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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