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HANDING OVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does handing over mean?
• HANDING OVER (noun)
The noun HANDING OVER has 1 sense:
1. the act of passing something to another person
Familiarity information: HANDING OVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of passing something to another person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
handing over; passage
Hypernyms ("handing over" is a kind of...):
bringing; delivery (the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "handing over"):
relay (the act of passing something along from one person or group to another)
Context examples
“Here, the poor fool has been begging and praying about handing over some of her money—because she has got too much of it. A simpleton!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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