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hand-out

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Idioms and Phrases

Distribute, as in The teacher handed out the test papers . [Late 1800s] For a synonym, see pass out , def. 1.
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This year's exam season will be very similar to the past few, with more than two million papers being handed out to pupils in silent school halls over the next month.

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A food bank is to hand out just one bag of food a month because it is running out of money.

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He later tweeted that Kris Jenner didn’t hand out the magazines to the kids, as one X account had asserted, but said “they were just in reach like candy.”

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Seconds later, Yanez orders Valdez to keep his hands out of his pockets, then tells him to “put your hands behind your back, dude.”

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Cynical readers need not worry that I'm asking them to hand out medals for courage to university administrators.

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