Handing over In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "handing over", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Jimmy Hung calendar 2019-10-01 12:10

Meaning of Handing over (redirected from hand over )

Synonyms:

give someone up , turn in , give something up (to somebody) , yield someone up to someone else

Hand over phrase

To give or hand something to someone.


 

He refused to hand his gun over to the police, thereby leaving them no choice but to shoot him.

Don't forget to hand your papers over to me after class.

To give or delegate your authority or responsibility to someone or something else, so that you no longer have it.
 

I know you have contributed a lot, but the era is over. You should step down and hand over power to an able person.

She is thinking about handing over the responsibility for caring for her mom to a professional agency.

To offer someone to be captured by someone in authority.

Despite doing heinous things, he's still my brother—I can't just hand him over to the police!

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor on Sunday urged Sudan’s transitional government to hand over suspects wanted for war crimes and genocide in the Darfur conflict.

Grammar and Usage of Hand over

Verb Forms

  • handed over
  • handing over

The verb "hand" must be conjugated according to its tense.
 

Origin of Hand over

The origin of this phrase is not clear.
 

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