handover

US/ˈhændˌoʊvɚ/

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,173 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: handovers

A handover is passing your work and knowledge to whoever takes over. Write a handover, the handover period, a proper handover.

In hospitals it is the most dangerous moment in a patient's day, and structured handover protocols exist because things get lost between shifts. In politics a handover of power is the moment a state is most at risk. Note the noun is one word and the verb two.

Definitions of handover

1nounhandoverPassing work and knowledge to whoever takes over.B2+
“The night nurse gave a careful handover to the morning staff.”

handover is a passing on.

Where it comes from

Deverbal from hand over.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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handover in the wild

The flag was officially adopted and hoisted on 1 July 1997, during the handover ceremony marking the handover from the United Kingdom back to China.
Flag of Hong Kong
The vertical handover was first introduced by Mark Stemn and Randy Katz at U C Berkeley.
IEEE 802.21
The standard provides information to allow handing over to and from wired 802.3 networks to wireless 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 3GPP and 3GPP2 networks through different handover mechanisms.
IEEE 802.21
The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the People's Republic of China occurred at midnight on 1 July 1997.
Handover of Hong Kong
Influence from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-led central government in Hong Kong expanded significantly during the 2020s, roughly two decades after the handover.
Handover of Hong Kong

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