handout

Example Sentences

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Give fewer handouts, but instead clear a path to success.

From The Wall Street Journal

Baroness Batters added: "Farmers don't want handouts from the state, they want nothing more than to run thriving, profitable farming businesses, by earning a fair return for what they produce."

From BBC

“He really believed if he succeeded, you were going to succeed. It wasn’t about a handout, it was a hand up.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

But the Covid aftermath featured a sharp rise in inflation that drove up the cost of living, forcing officials to extend support programs or offer new handouts.

From The Wall Street Journal