handing over

1. 1.

   the act of passing something to another person

   Synonymspassage

   Broaderdelivery

   Narrowerrelay

Questions about handing over

What does handing over mean?

handing over means "the act of passing something to another person".

What is another word for handing over?

Close synonyms include passage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is handing over a common word?

handing over is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.