at hand

English

Prepositional phrase

at hand

1. Within easy reach; nearby.

   I don't have the information at hand, but I can look it up.

   Synonyms: handy, to hand, on hand

2. Near; soon

   Synonyms: approaching, imminent; see also Thesaurus:impending

   • 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Scholastic Books, Inc., published 1963, page 20:

     He felt it, as did the other dogs, and knew that a change was at hand.

3. (figurative) Currently receiving attention.
   • 2001, Ghaith Mahmood, “Problem is about oppression, not coexistence”, in The Daily Bruin‎^[1]:

     The problem at hand is not the inability of the Arabs and the Jews to live together peacefully.

Translations

within easy reach; nearby

• Catalan: a mà
• Chinese:

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• Czech: po ruce (cs)
• Finnish: käsillä
• French: sous la main (fr)
• Galician: á man
• German: griffbereit (de), parat (de)
• Hungarian: kéznél van
• Latin: praes, in promptu
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: tatanga
• Polish: pod ręką
• Portuguese: à mão
• Russian: под руко́й (ru) (pod rukój)
• Serbo-Croatian: при руци (pri ruci)
• Spanish: a mano (es)
• Swedish: på sig
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

near; soon; approaching; imminent

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: käsillä
• French: proche (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: greifbar (de)
• Japanese: せまっている (sematteiru)
• Swedish: i antåg

currently receiving attention

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: käsillä
• French: concerné (fr)

Further reading

• “at hand”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Dhanat, hadn't a