0 past simple and past participle of hand --
1 to put something into someone's hand from your own hand: --
If it chose to retain a voting majority, it would have handed the chairmanship's power of delay to the opposition.
The recruiting agents went to the villages to recruit the workers who were then handed over to the labour contractors.
This group will wait in a kind of desultory silence, with little chatting, before the tea is handed into the room from the back.
A year later, the military handed over power to a civilian government that had no interest in the programme and did not approve any projects.
An infinite sequence of generations allows a government to issue fiat money handed from one generation to another.
Because of their efforts, gagaku has been able to survive, handed down unchanged from the past.
A nurse handed the instrument to each participant the day after each seasonal event and collected it that evening.
It is not something to be handed down, ex cathedra, from on high as by a monarch.
