Antonyms for hand-out

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hand

Phonetic Transcription : hænd

Definition of hand-out

Origin : also handout, hand out, "alms or food given to a beggar," 1882, hobo slang, from hand (v.) + out. Meaning "distributed printed informational matter" is from 1927.

As in bonus : noun unexpected extra
As in charity : noun generosity, gift

Example sentences :

“Not if he struck him for a hand-out,” muttered the slangy Tom.
Extract from : « Ruth Fielding Down East » by Alice B. Emerson

Hand-Out: a bundle of food handed out to a beggar at the back door.
Extract from : « Tramping with Tramps » by Josiah Flynt

A lunch had been served on the train early in the day, but that was only a "hand-out."
Extract from : « Company G » by A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow

I've never earned a hand-out with more dignified probity, sir.
Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman

He had, in the first place, come to our back door to beg a hand-out.
Extract from : « Tramping on Life » by Harry Kemp

The hand-out was a damn sight better'n th' rotten slush I get here.
Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman

He begged a hand-out from one of the small houses and hunted a place to spend the night.
Extract from : « Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective » by Ellis Parker Butler

He went from house to house begging a hand-out, but the residents were colder than the weather.
Extract from : « Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective » by Ellis Parker Butler

In this business ye got to cough up yer whole soul jus' to get a lump (hand-out).
Extract from : « Notes of an Itinerant Policeman » by Josiah Flynt

I'd a-hated your fine talk, an' your poetry, an' the thing about you that makes you hate to touch a guy for a hand-out.
Extract from : « The Mucker » by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Synonyms for hand-out

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