hand down

/hˈand dˈaʊn/

/hˈænd dˈaʊn/

to hand down

MAIN VERB

passed on, as by inheritance

‌to formally announce something such as a decision or judgment

*** to give or teach something to someone who will be alive after you have died

Examples

1. Music has been a passion that is handed down from father to son in the Smith family.

2. With the judge handing down the maximum possible sentence, this monster will be paying the fiddler for the rest of his life.

3. Budgeting, hands down.

4. Budgeting, hands down.