The act of approaching someone for a loan or handout. 向某人借款,要求施舍接近某人以获得贷款或施舍的行为
I read the handout carefully. 我仔细看了这份分发的资料。
He's just looking for a handout. 他在寻求施舍。
handout
[ noun ]
an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
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giving money or food or clothing to a needy person
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handout \hand"out\, hand-out \hand"-out\n. 1. 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. [PJC]
2. a printed circular distributed gratis, usually for political or advertising purposes. [PJC]
3. a printed statement distributed, usually to the news media. [PJC]
One handout promises: "Pedigrees, parties, post times, parimutuels and pageantry."
Today, however, Charles Webb finds himself looking for a handout.
The Air Force included in one package of material it gave reporters a handout, printed for military personnel, that listed locations where airmen were staying and the times and pickup points of shuttles to base areas.
"We do not come to this House asking for any handout," said the California Democrat.
However, those communicators should realize that use of handout material is (or certainly should be) rare; when such material is used, the source is typically identified on the air.
"The handout journalism that exists in the White House has now gone to campaigns as well.
But the Soviet Union "cannot depend on foreign sponsors" to fix its economy, and aid to Moscow will not be "a handout," he said.
If I propose sycamores, I would qualify for a broad-leaved handout.
The radio and leather fashions bought with the handout may make their holiday a little brighter.
It's argued that farm subsidies for those states entail additional costs, and that Turkey is also looking for a handout.
"What we get from the federal government," the mayor says, "is not a handout.
The Massachusetts governor said his GOP rival's call for a cut in the capital-gains tax amounts to a handout for the wealthy.
Weary shoppers ending another day of scouring stores for food said Thursday they welcomed economic aid from the United States and did not feel ashamed, because it wasn't a handout.
Veterans said they're not asking for a handout.
Today Homage to Catalonia would be a publicity handout from the Barcelona Tourist Board.
The Rhode Island Republican, who led the floor fight against the provision, calls it "purely a government handout of the most outrageous kind."