0 near to someone or something, and ready to help or be used if necessary:
2 if money, resources, etc. are on-hand, they are available immediately:
Celebrity chefs are often on-hand to host the events.
Combined with a heat wave, these conditions nearly caused the actors to pass out and nurses had to be kept on-hand with oxygen tanks.
The higher the probability that stock will be used in the future, the more the on-hand stock value can be reduced.
Brands also benefit from online communities by having them on-hand to answer questions, test hypotheses, and observe.
In particular, he recommended reducing the practice of deferred dividends, which allowed the insurance companies to keep large stores of cash on-hand for illegal purposes.
He had spent $179,000 and has about $70,000 cash on-hand.
The professors will train the students with on-hand projects and help them to learn techniques.
It is calculated by dividing the number of units sold by the beginning on-hand inventory (for that same time period).