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to hand
Also, in hand . In one's possession, as in He had their letter to hand , or She had the money in hand . The first term dates from the mid-1700s, the second from about 1200. Also see hand to hand .
Also, at hand . Nearby, accessible, as in I don't have the right tools to hand but asked her to get them for me . [c. 1300]
Example Sentences
Yet inexplicably, the best-laid plans continually fail, and they are forced to hand said ball to unproven rookies.
The court is likely to hand down a decision by late June.
By a vote of 131-84, a supermajority of House Democrats chose to hand one of the most visible positions in Congress to someone who announced their retirement from public life four months later.
This, it says, made bottlenecks worse in A&E and for ambulances trying to hand over patients and that delays for those handovers were worse than in previous winters.
He said Hamas has agreed to hand over all the remaining hostages in an exchange to an end to the war, but that Israel wants the hostages released without offering a vision on an end to the conflict.
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