handout

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
noun giving money or food or clothing to a needy person

Deverbal from hand out.

If I had the coin, wouldn't I give them a handout of fresh air and milk? — Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole, Fannie Hurst
Their reporter, grasping a mike and standing in front of the milling mob around the podium, was reading from a press handout that provided an English summary of the letter. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
Streets and windows, paintings of the Virgin Mary, beds of the fifty-cent prostitutes, cannon at Verdun and police whistles on crossings; the Pope in Rome, the President in Washington, the man hunting the alleys for a handout, the languorous women breeding in ornamental beds--all say a tick-tock. — Erik Dorn, Ben Hecht

press release, release

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