handout

UK/ˈhændaʊt/US/ˈhændˌaʊt/

nounB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,913 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: handouts

A handout is a sheet given out to a class or an audience. Take a handout, the lecture handout, print the handouts.

The other sense is money given as charity, and it is nearly always used with contempt by people arguing against it. Both senses come from the same plain image of something held out and taken.

Definitions of handout

1nounhandoutA sheet given out to a class or an audience.B2
“The teacher gave everyone a handout with the main points of the lesson.”

handout is a sheet.

Where it comes from

a deverbal from hand out.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

handout in the wild

A handout refers to something that is given or distributed freely, usually to those in need.
Handout
During the Great Depression, many people lived entirely on handouts of one kind or another when they could not afford to buy food.
Handout
Anthony Messenger Press, Catholic Update was intended for use as a parish handout to help explain the many changes then happening in the Catholic Church.
Catholic Update
A fly sheet may refer to a lightweight pamphlet or handout, such as a Flyer (pamphlet).
Fly sheet
The handout becoming general knowledge sparked a major uproar in Finland in 1975.
Pirkkala handout

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