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Discover LudwigThe phrase "to hand back" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is a phrasal verb meaning to return or give something back to someone. Example: After finishing the books, the teacher asked the students to hand them back to her. In this sentence, "to hand back" is used as an action that the students need to do, which is to return the books to the teacher.
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I'm going to hand back to Hélène Mulholland now.
Local governments are satisfied because they did not have to hand back any money.
Former ministers and a prime minister agreed to hand back money pilfered in office.
Labour said the latest donation the Tories have had to hand back reveals a "chaotic campaign".
The government has begun, albeit slowly, to hand back confiscated Armenian church properties.
Mr Icahn forced Apple to hand back to investors some of its $160 billion cash pile.
It would also make it difficult to hand back contracts to the NHS.
He even wanted to hand back his title of honorary conductor.
There's no need to hand back my undergraduate degree just yet.
What St Andrews takes away with one hand, it tends to hand back with the other.
Crosby also offered to hand back 30% of his £580,000-a-year pension.
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