pass on phrasal verb ( see also ↑ pass )
1 . pass something ↔ on to give someone a piece of information that someone else has given to you
pass something ↔ on to
She said she’d pass the message on to the other students.
2 . pass something ↔ on
a) to give something, especially a disease, to your children through your ↑ gene s
b) to give a slight illness to someone else
pass something ↔ on to
One catches the virus and they pass it on to the rest.
3 . pass something ↔ on to make someone else pay the cost of something
pass something ↔ on to
Any increase in our costs will have to be passed on to the consumer.
4 . to die – use this when you want to avoid saying the word ‘die’