handover

or hand-o·ver

[ hand-oh-ver ]

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noun

the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.:
a handover of occupied territory.

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Noun use of verb phrase hand over

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The handover was peaceful and happened in eastern Afghanistan along the border, according to a senior U.S. Defense official.

Their seed money came from a smuggling operation that they ran prior to the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from the UK to China.

A spokesman for the ICC said it had received no information about a handover to Libyan authorities in Tripoli.

The case has split the top leadership of the Communist party, and has cast a shadow over the handover.

But Obama cut off the document handover by invoking executive privilege.

Mrs Handover, by virtue of her sex, instinctively triumphed over him.

Thoroughly well-meaning, Mrs. Handover was the most incompetent of housewives.

On his reply that he thought of removing, Mrs. Handover fell into profound depression, and began to disclose her history.

When the revelation could be postponed no longer, he made known to Mrs Handover that he was about to be married.

I didn't think he was fool enough'—thus only he replied to Mrs. Handover's anxious questions.

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