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say it: HAN-dowt
handout is a noun meaning "an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation". It is pronounced /ˈhænˌdaʊt/ — HAN-dowt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
giving money or food or clothing to a needy person
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for handout come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.