hand back

collocation in English

meaningsofhandandback

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hand
noun
uk
/hænd/us
/hænd/
the part of the body at the end of the arm that is used for holding, moving, touching, and ...
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back
noun[C]
uk
/bæk/us
/bæk/
the inside or outside part of an object, vehicle, building, etc. that is furthest from ...
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(Definition ofhandandbackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The proposals tohandbacksteel and road haulage to private profit makers will not impress organised labour or encourage sacrifices on their part.
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The manufacturer is and should be liable and the last holder and/or owner must be able tohandbackthe car without any cost.
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The assembly might or might nothandbackthe equivalent of the disaggregated hypothetical sum.
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It will be bureaucratic to collect andhandback, so why not call it quits?
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But, in regard to civil aviation, they wouldhandbackto private enterprise those parts which are capable of being run at a profit.
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In regard to commodities which we are not nationalising, the policy generally has been tohandbackto private enterprise.
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That is the first way we have tried tohandbackto the private trade.
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They want to tax today andhandbacktomorrow in the run-up to the general election.
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He is allowing somebody to consume it and use it up so that at the end there is nothing of that mineral tohandback.
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If theyhandbackthe telephones why should they nothandbackthe telegraphs?
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At the end of their term theyhandbacktheir power, and their successors are appointed.
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In what condition will theyhandbackthe unions to their members when they have finished with them?
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Surely it should be an offence not tohandbackdrugs that are taken from the relatives of a patient after death.
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I shall make a brief contribution on this occasion, just to get myhandbackin, as it were.
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That is a sad factor, and sooner or later we shall have tohandbackpowers to the people who benefit or suffer from them.
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Let them, then,handbacksome of the good land which they have.
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Would he look at this again and make those county councils which have demanded this extortionate blackmailhandbacktheir ill-gotten gains?
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If they cannot afford the increased payments, their only option is tohandbackthe set to the dealer.
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First, they have made a thinly disguised commitment tohandbackmore power to the trade unions.
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That requires new arrangements tohandbackmajor responsibilities to locally elected representatives.
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Yet through the treaty we willhandbackthat independence to the central banks—to monetary power.
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