hand down
Verb
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Verb
hand down
- To transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor.
- Fables are handed down from age to age.
- (law) To deliver (the decision of a court, etc.)
- The jury handed down a verdict of guilty.
- (law) To forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher court).
- The Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its decision.
- (idiomatic) To donate (as second hand.)
- When my older brother grows out of his clothes, he hands them down to me.
- French: transmettre
- German: überliefern
- Italian: tramandare
- Russian: передава́ться
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