handout
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈhændˌaʊt/
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ayuda
- Despite recent welfare reform efforts and employment initiatives, most welfare provisions remain handouts to individuals.
- government handouts
- give handouts
- handouts to the poor
But to me, it's a gift, it's a handout, it's a freebie.
- But to me, it's a gift, it's a handout, it's a freebie.
- Quit looking for handouts and stand up and be a man.
- It does not take enormous handouts from the US.
- I've always said if you want to change a nation, it's not by handouts.
- They didn't grow wealthy through government handouts, though.
- However, I'm too proud to go and say give me a handout.
- One of those things is probably to rethink the whole concept of of a government handout that also goes to the rich.
- But I doubt it was I I doubt old Uncle Sam came in here and, you know, gave you a handout.
- And and like kind of to like street methods, but applied it to this business and and didn't want any handouts.
- Because I understood that if Toby was to be successful, he was going to have to bootstrap it and do it on his own with no shortcuts and no handouts.
- And I went to one community where they'd had a handout and it was a couple of hours from Mexico City and they'd gone to this, this one village.
- They won't give us handouts and me some.
- They need examples because the government's going to give some handouts we about that go through the biggest handout dish out.
- Be a bridge, reach a handout to someone and go out in nature and create whatever it is that's inside your heart that you love.
Examples
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The other prisoners scramble after him, desperate to receive their daily handout from their relatives.
Fiction book (2002) -
But how long can you provide for us on government handouts?
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You heard I was doing well, so you came looking for a handout?
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But mostly they just wanted a handout.
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And so very often doctors who are busy will give you a handout to say, hey, eat these things and don't eat these things.
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Now America's just another broke ex-superpower looking for a handout and wondering why.
Fiction book (2000) -
Foreign governments should stop providing Albania with handouts and undertake projects to improve the infrastructure.
Academic text (1999) -
I don't take handouts.
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The family survives on handouts and the small vegetable patch in their backyard.
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In the heat and the dust, there's a desperate scramble for handouts for those left with nothing.
Synonyms
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1.9
Money, goods, or time given to help others and organizations
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3.2
A free item given to people to promote a product or event
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1.0
Food you are given without paying
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3.3
Help by giving money or goods to people in need
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Etymology
The word handout comes from the parts hand and out, which together mean 'to give by hand'. That's why a handout can also mean money, food, or other help that is given free to someone in need.