hand in hand

1. 1.

   together

   “hand in hand with hope went fear”

   “doctors and nurses work hand in hand to save lives”
2. 2.

   clasping each other's hands

   “they walked hand in hand”

Questions about hand in hand

What does hand in hand mean?

hand in hand means "together". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is hand in hand a common word?

hand in hand is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.