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hand over
verb
- to surrender possession of; transfer
noun
- a transfer or surrender
Idioms and Phrases
Release or relinquish to another's possession or control. For example, You may as well hand over the money , or He decided to hand the store over to his children . [c. 1800] For a synonym, see turn over , def. 5.Example Sentences
This, it says, made bottlenecks worse in A&E and for ambulances trying to hand over patients and that delays for those handovers were worse than in previous winters.
A Palestinian official familiar with negotiations told the BBC that Hamas has signalled its readiness to hand over governance of Gaza to any Palestinian entity agreed upon "at the national and regional level".
The group reiterated that it would hand over all of the hostages in exchange for an end to the war and a full Israeli withdrawal.
The government said the new powers to punish executives were needed because in the past water companies had failed to hand over vital evidence related to illegal sewage discharges.
Hamas reiterated that it would hand over all of the hostages in exchange for an end to the war and a full Israeli withdrawal.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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