Definition of "hand-down" []

• Same as hand-me-down. (adjective)

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• "More importantly, public food assistance programs to ensure food security is more than a 'hand-down,' but rather a critical 'hand-up' in upward mobility -- a hand-up to better nutrition and greater societal economic benefits."
• "Carter, at his best as a hand-down end, has struggled to become comfortable as a stand-up player who must drop into coverage."
• "Tea baggers are hand-down, without a doubt, the biggest bunch of whiney cry-babies to enter the partisan melee."