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hand something down1Pass something on to a younger person or a successor: songs are handed down from mother to daughter...- Of course they can conserve these things only by handing them down, by passing them on to their children, or to somebody's children.
- It used to belong to my father, but before he passed away he handed it down to me.
- The songs were handed down in special hand-copied notebooks.
Synonyms pass on, pass down; bequeath, will, leave, leave in one's will, make over, endow, gift, transfer, give, transmit; Law demise, devise 2Announce something, especially a judgement or sentence, formally or publicly: it was the most liberal decision ever handed down by a football authority...- One way round such fears is to allow the relatives to speak after the sentence has been handed down, some critics suggest.
- Two weeks later the formal decision was handed down to close the private bank, a bitter pill that Citigroup recently disclosed cost it $244 million in the fourth quarter alone.
- I ought formally to hand the judgment down, unless, having read it, you have noticed any errors or omissions?
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