What does handing over mean?

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hand·ing over

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. passage, handing overnoun

    the act of passing something to another person

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  1. handing over

    Handing over, in general terms, refers to the act of transferring responsibility, control, possession or any other rights of a particular object, property, task, duty, or role from one individual, entity or authority to another. This action usually involves formal procedures or protocols and is common in numerous areas such as business, law, real estate and more.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of handing over in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of handing over in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of handing over in a Sentence

  1. Mayor Marty Walsh:

    No benefit is so great that it is worth handing over the financial future of our city.

  2. Mike Pompeo:

    I think they understand who the malign actor is here and I think they'll see all the countries in the region, including the United States, as truly trying to help them, there's a deep recognition that this is a years and years long problem almost exclusively the result of Maduro handing over the keys to the country to Cuba, and that's not the guy who you want being part of the conversation about how to move democracy forward.

  3. Taylor Budowich:

    After complying completely with the Committee, including sitting for a four-hour deposition on December 22nd, I returned home on December 23rdonly to find a notice from my banking institution, JPMorgan Chase, that they’d be handing over my banking records to the committee if I did not provide a court-ordered stoppage by December 24th.

  4. Antony Blinken:

    In fact, we're talking with our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to backfill their needs if, in fact, they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians. What can we do ? How can we help to make sure that they get something to backfill the planes that they're handing over to the Ukrainians ? We're in very active discussions with them about that.

  5. The FSB:

    He was recruited by the CIA and fulfilled its tasks, collecting and handing over information classified as state secrets for three years in exchange for material reward.

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