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An example use of handout in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… nobody is gonna give you a handout and …”
Handout is a document that is given to a person or group of people.
the word handout occurs in english on average 1.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that handout can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) communication, information, and media;