Meanings
- Readily available; within easy reach; nearby.
Einhorn had a teaching turn […] And with his son at the university I was the only student he had to hand.
1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC1 more example
Now, faults can be diagnosed remotely and (in many cases) fixed before the train even reaches the depot. "It's our version of Formula 1 telemetry," quips Hinze. "It is similar for us to how a pit crew in Formula 1 can understand an issue as the car is coming into the pits - because it has that data to hand already. You know what's wrong before it arrives."
2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 26Synonyms: at hand, handy, on hand, to one's hand
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseReadily available; within easy reach; nearby.
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