handover
Americannoun
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handovers
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of handover
Noun use of verb phrase hand over
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Free trains are being laid on to the capital for the occasion, with some 750 police guarding the centre of Sofia during the handover ceremony.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
After entering the International Space Station, the Crew-13 astronauts and cosmonaut will complete a brief handover with members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
She witnessed its handover to Panama in 1999 and rose through the authority’s ranks, eventually overseeing a massive project to widen the waterway to accommodate larger ships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Experts have questioned the value to the public purse from the handover deal with Consort, which they describe as "too little, too late".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The handover can be plotted in stages, starting with a slow, dreamy triplet shuffle in jazz violinist Joe Venuti’s 1929 track ‘Apple Blossoms’, then in a more frantic version in his ‘Really Blue’ of 1930.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Sibling duo Roman Kemp and Harleymoon were candid about their relationship not being as close as they would like: busy careers had reduced their interactions to quick spare-key handovers and dog drop-offs.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
These craven handovers will have an entirely predictable result: They will only encourage further extortionate suits against news organizations.
From Salon ● May 24, 2025
The exchange, the sixth of its kind since the accord was struck nearly a month ago, went more smoothly than some of the previous handovers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2025
International Committee of the Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric had urged that security around the handovers be improved and they "take place in a safe and dignified manner".
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2025
Tata is far from an isolated case: from banks to consumer goods, some of India's biggest companies have been rocked by leadership exits and botched handovers in recent months.
From Barron's
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