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Plural of handout

regular plural

The plural of handout is handouts.

Forms of handout

Singularhandout /ˈhændaʊt/
Pluralhandouts
Countablecountable

Handouts in a sentence

  • Why don't you prepare a whole stack of handouts in advance rather than getting out the supplies each time, onesie-twosie?From the entry onesie-twosie
  • The clan handouts that kept other Somalis afloat were absent here, as the Yibros were so few and so poor.2010, Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 67. From the entry afloat
  • When government delivers handouts with no string attached, more people naturally want to use and abuse them, which eventually ruins economy and drains a country's wealth.2021, Andrei Znamenski, “Regime of Goodness: Social Democracy and the Swedish Model, 1920s–1990s”, in Socialism as a Secular Creed: A…. From the entry no strings attached

Meaning of handout

  1. noun An act of handing out something.
  2. noun An act of dealing playing cards; a deal.
  3. noun A printed sheet such as a leaflet or pamphlet, or a worksheet, that is given out free of charge (usually by hand) for a certain use, for example as an advertisement or for information.

Full definition of handout

Questions about the plural of handout

What is the plural of handout?
The plural of handout is handouts.
Is handout countable?
Handout is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handout (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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