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handouthand‧out /ˈhændaʊt/ ●●○ noun [countable]   - My parents were too proud to take handouts from the government.
- She applied for a bank loan because she did not want to depend on her father for handouts.
- The unemployed need jobs, not government handouts!
- There's a four-page handout that you can pick up as you leave.
- Desks were littered with yards of wire stories, celebrity bulletins, picture handouts, telephone messages, and empty coffee cups.
- The handouts are intermittent; the amounts vary, as does the regularity of payment.
- There are also handouts, which may be photocopied for personal use.
- They sat in the littered corners at the ends, beggars in various states of desperation waiting mutely for handouts.
- Votes are free and can not be bought in exchange for handouts or offers of subsequent benefits.
- While sharing a cigarette with a newspaper vendor, he makes more in handouts than the other man does selling papers.
something that is given to help people who need it► donation something, especially money that is given to help people: · Any donation, however small, will be gratefully received.· The Famine Appeal has raised more than a million pounds through private donations and fund-raising activities. ► charity money or help given to help the poor, the sick etc: · Many homeless people are too proud to ask for charity.· The organization depends on charity, and on volunteer workers who are prepared to give up their time. ► aid money, food, medicine etc that is given by a government or organization to the people of another country or to people who are in a very difficult situation: · Aid is not getting through to the refugees.foreign/overseas aid: · The education programme is dependent on foreign aid, and the US Agency for International Development had been approached for funding. aid agency (=an organization that brings aid to people in places where there is war, not enough food etc): · Another harvest has failed, and international aid agencies warn of the threat of mass starvation. aid worker (=someone who works for an aid agency): · An Italian aid worker was kidnapped by rebels last month, and still hasn't been released. ► handout money, food etc that is given to someone who is poor - use this especially when you think they should not be given it or should not have to ask for it: · The unemployed need jobs, not government handouts!· She applied for a bank loan because she did not want to depend on her father for handouts. 1money or goods that are given to someone, for example because they are poor:  people who have to live on handouts from the state a cash handout2a piece of paper with information, which is given to people who are attending a lesson, meeting etc: Please read the handout. |