to hand out
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1.8
- phrasal verb
- /hænd aʊt/
:
repartir
- The teacher decided to hand out the worksheets to all the students before the test.
- hand out questionnaires
- hand out business cards
- hand out leaflets
And they came around and they handed out candy.
- And they came around and they handed out candy.
- So my family would we would hand out food for the summer lunch program.
- Something that they always do at EMF is they hand out badges.
- So he starts handing out these candy bars, Hershey's bars and Snickers bars.
Examples
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And they came around and they handed out candy.
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All right, so now I'm going to hand out another case.
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So my family would we would hand out food for the summer lunch program.
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I mean, you could buy four of those cases and and hand them out on Halloween.
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Oh, every week the church hands out food donations to senior citizens.
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I just handed out some cash for them.
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So we're going to hand out a CHEAT SHEET.
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Members are also urged to send for free printed materials to hand out after the flight.
Academic text (1991) -
So I'm going to ask Anna to hand out a sheet.
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Fortunately, Mason had brought extra documents to hand out, so there was one for each of them.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To hand something to someone, for example a present
376
1.8
Cause something to go to other people or places
233
2.0
Hand something to someone without asking for money
199
1.5
To give out cards or other things to people
143
2.3
To hand things to several people
87
2.0
Give things to several people or places
68
2.7
To give things to people in a group, like papers or drinks
38
4.7
To give out small amounts of money or food to people in need
34
4.0
To give small amounts of something to several people over time
32
2.1
Hand something to each person in a group
28
3.4
To give out things to several people, often food or advice
19
3.7
To give medicine or other things to people at a pharmacy
10
4.2
Share things or money between several people
6
3.0
To send things by mail to many people
5
3.2
Give a copy of something to each person in a group, for example by email
3
3.2
To give things to several people, often one by one, like cards
3
4.8
To divide something into parts and give each part to different people
1
3.4
To divide something into parts and give each part to different people
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to solicit' is not directly derivable from 'hand' (to give/pass) + 'out' (away), and many learners would instead predict a distributive meaning ('give out'). However, the soliciting sense is a motivated metaphor (holding out a hand to receive), so there is partial predictability based on gesture rather than full compositionality.
Etymology
Hand out: The phrasal verb hand out comes from the image of using your hand to put something out to other people one by one, like giving papers around a room. So it means 'to distribute' or 'to give something to a group'.