Usually means: Transfer knowledge or possessions generationally.
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  1. pass down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pass (something) down, pass down: Merriam-Webster
  3. pass down: Wiktionary
  4. pass down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pass down: Legal dictionary

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  1. pass down: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (pass down)

verb:  (transitive) To hand over, pass through or transfer to a lower level, next generation, etc.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, down.

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