Crossword clues for handout
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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, usually for political or advertising purposes.
a printed statement distributed, usually to the news media.
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
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
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 handouts of one kind or another when they could not afford to buy food. The term became especially popular among hobos, who developed a system of signs and symbols to describe the nature, quantity, and availability of handouts.
The term "handout" is used specifically in sociology and welfare analysis to identify direct payments or provision of goods, and to distinguish them from other forms of welfare support such as low-interest loans, subsidized housing, or medical care. However, some people feel it has a negative connotation, with the implication that a handout is unearned and undeserved. "Give a hand up, not a handout" is a common remark among proponents of workfare or other welfare-to-work systems. The term "government handout" is often applied to both welfare systems as well as corporate welfare or pork.
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.