Usually means: Pass on to next generation.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. hand down: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hand down: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hand-down, hand down: Vocabulary.com
  4. hand-down: Wordnik
  5. hand down: Wiktionary
  6. hand-down, hand down: Dictionary.com
  7. hand-down, hand down: Rhymezone
  8. hand-down, hand down: Free Dictionary
  9. hand-down, hand down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. hand-down, hand down: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. hand down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hand down: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hand down: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hand down: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (hand down)

verb:  To transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor.
verb:  (law) To deliver (the decision of a court, etc.)
verb:  (law) To forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher court).
verb:  (idiomatic) To donate (as second hand.)

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