What does お手上げ mean?
お手上げ is a Japanese noun meaning “given in, given up hope” in English. It is written as お手上げ in kanji, おてあげ in hiragana, and oteage in romaji. This word is part of JLPT N1 vocabulary.
Example sentence
火災で全てのコンピューターディスクが駄目になってしまった時、会社はもうお手上げの状況だった。
The company faced a major interruption in business when a fire destroyed their archive of computer hard drives and optical discs.