handover

American  

[hand-oh-ver] / ˈhændˌoʊ vər /

Or hand-over

noun

• handovers
  plural

1. the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc..

   a handover of occupied territory.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• handovers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of handover

Noun use of verb phrase hand over

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

handover handovers

The handover ends Tim Cook's 15-year run, replacing the operations specialist who built Apple's supply chain with the engineer who built its hardware.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

The September 9 iPhone event will be the first public measure of the handover.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Craig Marriott, NHS Lothian Director of Finance, said a detailed assessment of the building's condition was carried out in 2022 to ensure contractual obligations would being met ahead of next year's handover.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Ferguson Marine CEO Graeme Thomson said the yard's immediate focus was the handover of Glen Rosa before the end of this year.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The young one stood still, his chest heaving, rubbing a handover his sweaty forehead, through his hair, around his mouth.

From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi

The most recent set of hostage handovers was part of the US-backed Gaza ceasefire deal that took effect on October 10.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

These craven handovers will have an entirely predictable result: They will only encourage further extortionate suits against news organizations.

From Salon ● May 24, 2025

This, it says, made bottlenecks worse in A&E and for ambulances trying to hand over patients and that delays for those handovers were worse than in previous winters.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025

It also identified that potentially more than 36,000 patients may have experienced some harm and that delayed handovers cost about £50m over the past five years.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025

The next such handovers are scheduled to take place Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025