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# handover

«handover» in Mova's school dictionary: **the act of passing something, such as a job, power or a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a handover, handovers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A handover is the act of passing something, such as a job, power or a place, from one person or group to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handover/#m1)

2) (work) A meeting where a worker tells the next worker what they need to know, such as nurses at the end of a shift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handover/#m2)

3) (sport) Passing the baton in a relay race (more often called the changeover). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handover/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In adult work life, nurses and doctors do a handover between shifts; in history, a handover of power or a territory (for example, a colony to another country) is a big event. In relay races, the handover of the baton must be smooth. Phrases: «a smooth handover», «handover of power», «shift handover».

### examples

- The nurses had a handover at seven o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handover/#x1)
- The handover of the keys happened at the new house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handover/#x2)
- The new head teacher had a long handover with the old one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handover/#x3)
- Our relay team practised the baton handover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handover/#x4)
- The handover of power was peaceful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handover/#x5)
- After the handover, the new owners moved in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handover/#x6)
- The teacher wrote handover notes for the supply teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handover/#x7)

### note

Countable noun, one word. The verb is two words: «hand over» («Please hand over your phones»). Similar: changeover, transfer.

### In the corpora

- [In 1797 George Washington stepped down as US president after eight years, a peaceful handover of power.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/67-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «handover» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/handover/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.