handsomething over

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handover | American Dictionary

handover
noun[ C ]
us/ˈhændˌoʊ·vər/
the official act of giving something to someone after planning to do this:
After the election, there was a peaceful handover of power to the new government.

handover | Business English

handover
noun[ C or U ]
 MANAGEMENTuk /ˈhændəʊvər/ us /-doʊvɚ/
the act of giving responsibility for something to another person, or the period during which this happens:
Company executives expect the handover to be relatively swift, with Norris taking over the chairman's role within weeks.
handover of sthThe handover of power is not going to happen before a general election.
an orderly/smooth handover
Now, after a handover period, he is leaving the board completely.

Examples of handover

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Portuguese as an official language of the civil service in the wake of the 1999 handover, then, had two effects.
The handover operation starts when the three snaring cables inside the end effector cylinder catch the grapple fixture probe.
As they wanted to sustain this 'organically grown' spirit, it is not surprising that they successfully brought a handover to fruition.
The handover meeting is the most likely part of the process to be overlooked.
Furthermore, deliverables were on time and there was no rework required following the project handover.
There has been relatively little change in the language situation after the handover, with a few exceptions.
The handover meeting should be scheduled to allow enough time for final checks and modifications prior to design issue.
This acted as a move to pursue political freedom and/or to foresee the political reality of the 1997 handover.
A face-to-face handover allows the team to review the design.
In the new policy of handover, the status of the land has become unclear and contested.
Several new casinos and hotels were opened after the handover, and more are being planned.
This study is a quantitative investigation of the language attitudes of 1,048 secondary students from the first postcolonial generation brought up amid the significant changes after the political handover.
Moreover, after a thorough literature review, the authors of the present study have not found a single mention of the handover in relation to the teaching and learning of music.
The property model highlights another danger associated with surrogacy: the danger that surrogacy encourages the alienation of personhood through the incremental handover of personhood-constituting rights and freedoms.
Though democratic popular songs have continued to be promoted by prodemocratic organisations since the 1997 handover, they are maintained as a kind of political propaganda and have little market value.
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