Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Making work which is symmetrical, on the right and the left hand, with respect to an assumed plane of symmetry.

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  • verb Present participle of hand.

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Examples

  • Daniel Horowitz, you ` ve heard the term handing the prosecution a case on the silver platter, I ` m talking about the Auburn, Alabama case.

    CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2008 2008

  • He previously said the state might have to begin handing out IOUs in mid-September, but that was delayed by higher revenue and lower spending in August than had been expected.

    California Budget Four Months Late AP 2010

  • This is politics, and, perhaps, the conservatives are more interested in "handing the President a defeat", a defeat that might really make a difference in 2010 and 2012, than working out a compromise that would benefit the American people? hypocrites_are_everywhere

    GOP senator blasts Dems health care proposals 2009

  • Two years ago, that was a virtually uncontested political proposition, as the voters made clear in handing Democrats the White House and supermajorities in both the House and Senate.

    Drew Westen: Bringing Up Boehner Drew Westen 2010

  • The study of the Iraq war files has revealed how Danish troops were involved in handing over detainees to Iraqi authorities, despite warnings of torture in police stations.

    Iraq war logs: media reaction around the world Martin Chulov in Baghdad 2010

  • Two years ago, that was a virtually uncontested political proposition, as the voters made clear in handing Democrats the White House and supermajorities in both the House and Senate.

    Drew Westen: Bringing Up Boehner Drew Westen 2010

  • As for the administrator before proposing handing over control to a private (not market) system which not only costs twice as much for administration, but spends twice the percentage of GNP on health care as most industrial countries with lower life expectancies is exactly equivalent to Putin handing choice indistries to his cronies.

    More on Medicaid, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • He previously said the state might have to begin handing out IOUs in mid-September, but that was delayed by higher revenue and lower spending in August than had been expected.

    California Budget Four Months Late AP 2010

  • This is a man born among the shipyards of Govan, who undoubtedly recognises the absurdity inherent in handing out wage packets of up to £150,000 a week to young stars whose appetite for life's luxuries is sated by their mid-20s, but who also knows that he must rekindle their fire once or twice a week, nine months of the year, using his own fire as the spark.

    Football – Bloody Hell! The Biography of Alex Ferguson by Patrick Barclay – review Richard Williams 2010

  • Carter scored 29 points, Yi added 22 points and a season-high 13 rebounds and the Nets limited Sacramento to 36 second-half points in handing the Kings their 11th straight road loss, 98-90 on Monday night.

    USATODAY.com 2008

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