Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of relinquishing property or authority etc. to another.
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- noun The
transference ofauthority ,control ,power orknowledge from oneagency to another
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- noun act of relinquishing property or authority etc
- verb to surrender someone or something to another
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Examples
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My drunk handover is an excellent job, all boxed off, with a couple of cast iron Section 20s on the back of it.
Friday Night In Out-Patients « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The handover is complete and Chase now officially runs the WaMu credit card operations.
Convert And Combine Your WaMu And Chase Cards - The Consumerist 2009
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The day I looked at Newzinger for Google Canada News, the tag handover was larger than all others.
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The second thing wrong with a short-term handover is that any amount of money for a war that is wrong, is also wrong.
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I don't think that the June 30 handover is going to make all that much of a difference in terms of the standard operating procedures for the troops on the ground.
In the Line of Fire 2004
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I don't think that the June 30 handover is going to make all that much of a difference in terms of the standard operating procedures for the troops on the ground.
In the Line of Fire 2004
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I don't think that the June 30 handover is going to make all that much of a difference in terms of the standard operating procedures for the troops on the ground.
In the Line of Fire 2004
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The fact remains that the near-term handover of power about which the ambassador boasts would not be taking place without the violence about which the press writes — and whose importance he so vigorously discounts.
'Delusions in Baghdad' Horan, Hume 2004
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Multi-year programmes that have already been approved and staffed, many providing services that sick people count on, would disappear; they wouldn't be phased out with a long-term handover to local health systems or other donors, they would just stop.
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: maybe their earnout/consulting handover is completed ...
YCombinator Could Have Hated My Idea But Loved Me. Oops I Meant the Other Way Around. Ben Barren 2007
bilby commented on the word handover
"On Monday night Anwar, a former deputy prime minister, told thousands of supporters at a rally outside Kuala Lumpur that he was seeking a meeting with Abdullah with the list of names of defecting MPs.
He said he wanted to discuss a smooth handover, and called for an assurance that the government would not deploy police and military onto the streets to remain in power."
- 'Malaysian PM calls opposition bluff', aljazeera.net, 16 Sep 2008.
September 16, 2008