on hand

/ˌɒn hˈand/

/ˌɑːn hˈænd/

[phrase]

on hand

[PHRASE]

used to refer to someone or something that is accessible and near to one

used to say that something must be addressed and handled

*** about to occur; imminent; pending

Examples

1. They had many urgent and pressing matters on hand.

2. When you have live captions they are a couple seconds delayed, so it's just nice to have that on hand

3. I got my reusable travel cutlery and my ChicoBag, because I do plan to leave somewhere after and it would just be nice to have that on hand.

4. The batteries can be negative, I guess, if you're someone that doesn't really carry a lot of batteries or you're very forgetful about that kind of stuff, so you want to have extra batteries on hand.