1 (sometimes disapproving) food, money or clothes that are given to a person who is poor:
to be dependent on handouts
2 (often disapproving) money that is given to a person or an organization by the government, etc., for example to encourage commercial activity
3 a free document that gives information about an event or a matter of public interest, or that states the views of a political party, etc.
seealsoPRESSRELEASE
4 a document that is given to students in class and that contains a summary of the lesson, a set of exercises, etc.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for handout is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is handout a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, handout is tagged as noun.
Does handout appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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