hand sth down
— phrasal verb with hand uk/hænd/us/hænd/verb [ T ]
(OBJECT)
C2 to give something to someone younger than you in the family because you want them to have it or because you no longer need it:
This necklace was handed down to my mother by my grandmother.
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Giving, providing and supplying
- accommodate
- accord
- administer
- administration
- assignment
- award
- deliver
- go round (somewhere)
- hand sth around
- hand sth back
- hand sth in
- hand sth out
- invest
- lay
- spare
- stake sb to sth
- step
- step forward
- supplier
- supply
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(TRADITION)
C2 to pass traditions from older people to younger ones:
a custom handed down through the generations
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Teaching in general
- brief
- CAL
- CLIL
- clue
- clue sb in
- didactic
- drum
- homeschool
- hothousing
- instruction
- instructional
- special educational needs
- teach
- teach sb a lesson idiom
- that'll teach sb idiom
- tutelage
- upskill
- upskilling
- wean
- wean sb on sth
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(DECISION)
formal to announce an official decision, often a decision about how someone should be punished:
The court handed down an eight-year sentence.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Announcing, informing & stating
- acquaint sb/yourself with sth
- advise
- annunciation
- awake
- come out
- confront
- declare
- fyi
- give sb a heads up idiom
- hand
- head
- let sb know idiom
- official
- predicate
- pronouncement
- put
- put sth out 1
- spread the word idiom
- tell
- unannounced
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