0 the giving of control of or responsibility for something to someone else: --
1 the official act of giving something to someone after planning to do this: --
After the election, there was a peaceful handover of power to the new government.
2 the act of giving responsibility for something to another person, or the period during which this happens: --
Now, after a handover period, he is leaving the board completely.
handover of sth The handover of power is not going to happen before a general election.
Company executives expect the handover to be relatively swift, with Norris taking over the chairman's role within weeks.
Though democratic popular songs have continued to be promoted by prodemocratic organisations since the 1997 handover, they are maintained as a kind of political propaganda and have little market value.
The property model highlights another danger associated with surrogacy: the danger that surrogacy encourages the alienation of personhood through the incremental handover of personhood-constituting rights and freedoms.
Moreover, after a thorough literature review, the authors of the present study have not found a single mention of the handover in relation to the teaching and learning of music.
This study is a quantitative investigation of the language attitudes of 1,048 secondary students from the first postcolonial generation brought up amid the significant changes after the political handover.
Several new casinos and hotels were opened after the handover, and more are being planned.
In the new policy of handover, the status of the land has become unclear and contested.
A face-to-face handover allows the team to review the design.
This acted as a move to pursue political freedom and/or to foresee the political reality of the 1997 handover.
