handout

Example Sentences

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And while a government cash handout expected on Wednesday -- the first for embattled jeepney drivers -- would be welcome, "5,000 pesos … won't carry you that far," Helera said.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

"I wasn't asking to live there. I wasn't asking for anything from the Australian government, I wasn't looking for a handout – I just wanted to experience Australia for the set term of the visa."

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Except most of us aren’t in line for this handout.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

Calderon said the program wasn’t “a handout; it’s basically a mitigation payment” from the federal government, which owns and manages about 45% of California’s land.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

It turned out I was supposed to have been picking them up over the summer as well—some kind of handout that I didn’t get in the mail.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini