0 a greeting, or an act showing that you have made an agreement, in which two people who are facing each other take hold of and shake each other's right hand:
1 a greeting or expression of agreement in which two people who are facing each other take hold of each other’s right hands and move them up and down
2 a greeting in which two people who are facing each other take hold of each other's right hand and move it up and down:
3 a business agreement made informally without signing an agreement:
5 a signal sent from one computer to another to show that they are ready to send and receive information:
Hackers false requests for an electronic handshake with our machines are so numerous that the legitimate requests can't get through.
The provision of golden or silver handshakes does not remove any of their bitterness.
That is the integrity of high finance, but when mines are closed down there is no golden handshake for the colliers.
They do not receive redundancy, severance pay or a golden handshake.
Redundancy and severance payments are within the scope of the "golden handshake" legislation, which incorporates an exemption for payments not exceeding £5,000.
Instead of golden handshakes we have the "golden hello"and"golden handcuffs".
There are some very good golden handshakes in the higher echelons of the private sector.
Secret handshakes and passwords completed the package.
A scenario is presented where a mere handshake could be enough to pass information such as identification, exchange of telephone numbers, email addresses or other messages.
