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An announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
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handout
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation [syn: press release , release ] giving money or food or clothing to a needy person
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A worksheet, leaflet, or pamphlet that is given out (usually by hand) for a certain use. 2 (senseid en a gift to the poor or needy)A gift to the poor or needy. 3 A gift, something given without effort
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A handout is something given freely or distributed free to those in need. It can refer to government welfare or a charitable gift, and it may take the form of money, food, or other necessities. During the Great Depression , many people lived entirely on ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ 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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
handout \hand"out\, hand-out \hand"-out\n. money or an object given in or as in a charitable gesture; -- also used of government disbursements to individuals for welfare; as, government hand-outs to welfare clients. a printed circular distributed gratis, ...
Usage examples of handout.
Papa Schimmelhorn took special care to be more than ordinarily subservient to the Mother-Empress at handout time, and he prepared himself for bed by chewing a few tasty catnip leaves.
Harry Sears gave the press a handout that Russ Millard composed, the straight dope of everything except the gutting of the stiff.
I tuck the postcard between the vaginoplasty brochures and the labiaplasty handouts stuck between the pages of the Miss Rona book.
When ultra-liberalism takes over the mind of a city, streets are no longer safe, people are defenseless, and wackos with weapons get free handouts.
In other words, to edit out the descriptives and make it look like the rest of the handout stuff.
The pork-barrel schemes, the handouts to special-interest groups, the patronage, the little wars and arms deals with petty dictators.
Noted names from Berkeley and Caltech spent pleasant months scribbling on blackboards while outside, the General Atomic squirrels and rabbits lazily foraged for their handouts.
On it lay a cellophaned wallet of Guyland press handouts this was where I'd scribbled his number.
Sycophants, stooges, glad-handers, pissanters and general rimbamboos would drop by the Mickster's side, to be rewarded with jokes, a backslap, a handout.
Handouts to every loser who comes whining to her with a pathetic story, contributions to causes like 'Save the Oysters,' impulse buying on a level you can't begin to imagine.
The trouble only got serious after that Kiowa chief came in for a government handout and gloated to Agent Tatum that he'd wiped out a wagon train.
His original suspicion that behind the smooth facade of the Beller Research Laboratories lay possible dissension was heightened by Klaus' peculiar behavior on the phone-and the idea of Mitchison doing anything as premature as sending out press handouts now, before the ground had been surveyed and the ice broken, gave him the cold running shudders.
His attention was broken by something poking him between his legs—the Labrador, lobbying for a handout.
Secretly, he had considered Civil Defense a boondoggle, like handouts to foreign countries and spending millions on moon rockets and such.
Even the newspersons stayed away, making do with official handouts unless a real news item were involved.