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TO HAND OVER

Definition: TO HAND OVER

TO HAND OVER

1. To yield control of; to surrender; to deliver up.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO HAND OVER

English words defined with "TO HAND OVER": cut downdownkeep back, knock downpull down, push downwithhold. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO HAND OVER": bearer scripForfeiture penaltyprovisional share certificatescrip certificate. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO HAND OVER

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Effective immediately, your licence to kill is revoked, and I require you to hand over your weapon. (Licence to Kill; writing credit: Michael G. Wilson; Richard Maibaum)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO HAND OVER

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Guinea-Bissau

Intchama threatened to arrest the journalists after the staff refused to hand over the tapes. (references)

Singapore

In March seven of the group were sentenced to 4 weeks in jail for refusing to hand over placards to the police. (references)

Ukraine

The SBU searched Yeltsov's home and questioned him for allegedly failing to hand over sensitive state documents. (references)

Economic History

China

Therefore, companies should arrange for the agent/distributor to hand over the certificates or licenses. (references)

Angola

A 1974 coup d'etat in Portugal established a military government that promptly ceased the war and agreed to hand over power to a coalition of the three movements. (references)

Bangladesh

Since June 1996, the Privatization Board has managed to hand over to the private sector only 5 small enterprises out of the 32 firms slated for sale, while 12 more have been in the process for the past few years. (references)

Human Rights

Suriname

The military police continued to observe the requirement to hand over to the civil police civilians arrested for committing a crime in their presence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO HAND OVER

Language Translations for "TO HAND OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(to cross, to get along, to give, to go over, to live, to pass). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

譲り渡す (to cede, to turn over), 譲る (to assign, to convey, to dispose of, to sell, to surrender, to transmit, to turn over, to yield), 手渡す (to surrender), 引き渡す (to deliver, to extradite, to stretch across). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひきつぐ (to take over), ひきわたす (to deliver, to extradite, to stretch across), わたす (to pass over), ゆずりわたす (to cede, to turn over), ゆずる (to assign, to convey, to dispose of, to sell, to surrender, to transmit, to turn over, to yield), もうしおくる (to send word to, to write to), もうしつかわす (to send word to, to write to), よ"す (to forward, to send), てわたす (to surrender). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO HAND OVER

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

u-e . . . si. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

defero. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TO HAND OVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-n-o-o-r-t-v"

-2 letters: handover, overhand, ratooned.

-3 letters: another, donator, honored, odonate, odorant, overhot, tandoor, thorned, throned, tornado, verdant.

-4 letters: advent, advert, anther, ardent, atoned, atoner, dahoon, dearth, dehorn, dehort, dhoora, donate, enroot, hadron, hanted, harden, hatred, hooted, hooter, hooved, horned, hornet, hotrod, nother, orated, ornate, overdo, ranted, ratoon, roadeo, rodent, rooted, tavern, thenar, thoron, thrave, thread.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-n-o-o-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: servanthood.

 

+2 letters: servanthoods.

 

+3 letters: photoengraved.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO HAND OVER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      48 41 4E 44      4F 56 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#79 &#86 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0048 0041 004E 0044      004F 0056 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449242354838249563952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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