Hand Over

Definition: Hand Over

Hand Over

Verb

1. To surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Hand Over

Giving

Verb: deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower.

Inattention

Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful).

Neglect

Adverb: negligently; Adjective: hand over head, anyhow; in an unguarded moment; (unexpectedly); per incuriam.

Rashness

Adverb: post haste, a corps perdu, hand over head, tete baissee, headforemost; happen what may, come what may.

Transfer

Verb: transfer, convey; alienate, alien; assign; grant; (confer); consign; make over, hand over; pass, hand, transmit, negotiate; hand down; exchange;(interchange).

Crosswords: Hand Over

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)

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Books

• Black Hand over Kansas (reference)

• Hand over Fist (reference)

• Hand Over Hand (reference)

• Hand over Heart: Poems 1981-1988 (reference)

• Hand over mind (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Hand over Fist [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The crow's nest at Station Moclips - 215 feet above the ground Note spikes driven into tree - builders would drive spikes and go hand over hand Triangulation party of H. A. Seran According to Seran: "It took men of uncommon nerve to do this work.". Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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The Principal Allied and Associated Powers will hand over the said territories to Denmark. (reference)

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He went to this tree, and passed his hand over the bark of the trunk, as if he were seeking to recognise and to count all the warts.

Tom held his hand over his eyes to protect himself from the lowering sun.

At length you slowly raise, pulling hand over hand, some horned pout squeaking and squirming to the upper air.

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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)

Nigeria

On July 4, a petroleum workers union called a strike demanding that Abacha release Abiola and hand over power to him. (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)

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)

Political Economy

Bangladesh

The walkout became a boycott when the opposition alleged the BNP rigged a March 1994 by-election and demanded Khaleda Zia hand over power to a neutral caretaker government before the next national polls. (references)

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

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

Expressions using "hand over": hand over a hostage ♦ hand over fist ♦ Hand over hand ♦ Hand over head ♦ hand over power ♦ hand over the command ♦ hand over to ♦ make money hand over ♦ To hand over. Additional references.

Afrikaans

oordra (convey, hand, pass, spend), inlewer (convey, deliver, furnish, hand, pass, supply). (various references)

Albanian

ia lë përgjegjësinë, ia kaloj stafetën, ia dorëzoj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حول (ability, about, alien, around, be cross eyed, bleach, capricious, commit, concerning, deed, deliver, deter, divert, encode, hand down, make, metamorphose, power, process, redress, refer, relocate, round, stop, switch, transfer, transmute, transpose, turn, whimsical, withdraw, work, year), ‏تخلى (abandon, assign, cast aside, cede, desist, disgorge, expose, forsake, give up, go back on, leave, let down, part, quit, release, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retreat, shake, shrift, sign away, slough, swear off, throw over, turn one's back on, vacate, waive, walk out on, yield), ‏سلم (accept, admit, agree, allow, commit, consign, deliver, give in, grant, hierarchy, ladder, postulate, presume, recognize, render, resign, rung, salaam, salute, scale, secure, stair, staircase, stairway, submit, transmit, turn in, turn over), ‏بعث (bundle, cast, despatch, dispatch, forward, hand, mission, reanimate, recall, regenerate, regeneration, renaissance, restoration, resurrect, resurrection, rise, risen, rising, send, send in, telegram). (various references)

Bulgarian 

предавам (carry, convey, deliver, denounce, get through, give, give in, give over, give up, hand in, impart, pass along, pass in, pass round, put out, render, reproduce, resign, sell down the river, sell out, send, send on, send out, submit, transfuse, turn over, yield). (various references)

Catalan

lliurar (hand). (various references)

Chinese 

繳 (hand in), 移交 (transfer), 交出 , 交代 (explain, make clear). (various references)

Czech

vydat (betray, bring out, disburse, edit, expend, extradite, get out, issue, outlay, release, render, surrender), postoupit (concede, get through, refer), podat (deliver, give, hand, hand back, hand down, hand in, reach, tender), předat (bequeath, convey, hand down, impart, pass on, refer, transmit), předání. (various references)

Dutch

toereiken (convey, hand, pass, suffice), ter hand stellen (hand), overhandigen (hand), overgeven (convey, hand, pass, throw up, vomit), overbrengen (convey, give an account, hand, move, pass, report, transfer, transport), afdragen (convey, hand, pass, use up, wear out), aanreiken (convey, hand, pass, spend), aangeven (accord, accuse, convey, declare, denounce, give, hand, indicate, pass, point out, register, show, spend, state, suggest). (various references)

Esperanto

transdoni (convey, hand, pass), enmanigi (hand). (various references)

Finnish

siirtää (assign, carry forward, convey, dislodge, displace, endorse, graft, make ... over, move, remove, shift, transfer, transmit, transplant, transport), luovuttaa (cede, convey, deliver, extradite, give up, make over, relinquish, resign, surrender, transfer, yield), jättää (allow, deliver, give up, hand in, leave, leave . . to somebody, let, present, quit, release, retire from). (various references)

French

transmettre (hand down, hand on), transférer, remettre � , remettre, passer le pouvoir � , livrer, céder. (various references)

Frisian

oanrikke (convey, hand, pass, spend), oanlangje (convey, hand, pass, spend), ôfjaan (convey, delivery, hand, pass), ôfdrage (convey, hand, pass). (various references)

German

aushändigen (convey, deliver, hand, pass), überreichen (hand, present), übergeben (bequeath, commit, consign, consigned, cross, give over, go beyond, hand, present, refer, remand, render up, surrender, to consign, to deliver (from), to transfer, to turn over, transfer, turn over). (various references)

Greek 

παραδίνω (deliver, give, give in, give over, hand, turn in). (various references)

Hebrew 

למסור (convey, deliver, forward, give, give in, give up, hand, impart, render, turn in), לתת (allow, establish, give, grant, let, make, malt, permit, render), ל�"ק� ות (bestow, designate, give possession, impart, transfer), ל�"עביר (carry, communicate, convey, hand, hand down, lead over, make over, pass, pass on, put across, remove, switch, transfer, transmit, transport), ל�"ס�'יר (deliver, give in, isolate, surrender), לרטות (extract, soften). (various references)

Hungarian

átruház (assign, confer, convey, depute, devolve, quitclaim, to alien, to alienate, to assign, to consign, to demise, to devolve, to make over, to release, to transfer), átad (give over, give up, hand, impart, left, pass, pass over, to assign, to consign, to convey, to give up, to leave, to pass, to pass over, to remit, to surrender, to transmit, to turn in, turn in). (various references)

Indonesian

timbang-terima (transfer), menimbangterimakan, memberikan (cede, give, supply). (various references)

Italian

consegnare (commit, consign, deliver, entrust, hand, intrust, leave, present, resign, surrender), cedere (abandon, assign, cede, crack, devote, give, give in, give up, give way, knuckle, relent, relinquish, render, sag, sell, submit, succumb, surrender, yield), arrendersi (capitulate, give up, knuckle under, surrender). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

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

Japanese Katakana 

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

Manx

coyrt (communicate, donate, give, giving, lead, service). (various references)

Pig Latin

andhay overay

Polish

wręczać, przekazać, podawać. (various references)

Portuguese

entregar (charge, commit, consign, deliver, dispense, furnish, give, give in, give up, hand, hand in, hand out, lay down, part with, relinquish, render, serve, supply, turn in, turn over, yield), ceder (break, bring to one's knees, cede, convey, demise, desist, dispose of, fold, give in, give up, give way, go, humor, humour, indulge, knuckle under, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield). (various references)

Russian 

передавать (abalienate, circulate, communicate, consign, convey, deliver, deliver over, devolve, give, hand over to, impart, leave, pass, pass on, reach, relegate, repeat, sign away, transfer, transfuse, transmit, turn over). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predati (commend, commit, consign, deliver, give in, give in charge, give over, hand, hand down, pass on, reach, surrender). (various references)

Spanish

entregar (concede, consign, convey, deliver, fetch, furnish, give, give in, give over, give up, hand, hand in, Lodge, part with, pass, render, render up, serve, show up, spend, submit, supply, surrender, throw, turn in, turn over, yield), ceder (acquiesce, assign, budge, cede, concede, dispose of, give, give in, give up, give way, go, grant, make over, part with, relent, relinquish, render up, sign away, sign over, transfer, turn over, waive, yield), alargar (accord, convey, draw out, drop, dwell on, elongate, extend, give, hand, hold out, lengthen, let down, pass, protract, put forth, put out, reach, spend, spin out, strech out, throw out, touch). (various references)

Swedish

överlämna (commit, consign, deliver, give over, leave, pass over, present, submit, surrender, transmit). (various references)

Turkish

yüklemek (ascribe, burden, charge, embark, encumber, fasten, fasten on, father, foist, freight, heap, impose, impute, inflict, Lade, lay, lay on, lay smth. at one's door, load, offload, overlay, pin, pitch, plant, put, put down, saddle, shift, stack, store, weight), vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), teslim etmek (cede, commit, confide, consign, deliver, deliver up, give in, give up, hand in, own, resign, submit, surrender, turn in, turn over, yield up), devretmek (alienate, assign, cede, circuit, circulate, convey, deliver, devolve, dispose of, hand down, hand on, pass, pass on, revolve, slew, slue, transfer, turn over), bağışlamak (absolve, bestow, dispense, donate, endow, excuse, forgive, give away, give to charity, grant, hand out, have mercy, instate, kick in, pardon, remit, save). (various references)

Ukrainian

передавати (assign, attribute, circulate, communicate, deliver, devolve, give, give over, hand down, hand on, pass, present, reach, send, transfer, transmit). (various references)

Welsh

trosglwyddo (assign, transfer). (various references)

sum. (various references)

nadânu. (various references)

prodo, reddantur, reddasque, reddendo, reddent, reddente, redderet, reddet, reddetur, reddi, reddiderant, reddiderint, reddiderit, reddiderunt, reddidi, reddidistis, reddidit, reddiditque, reddimus, reddis, reddit, reddita, redditae, reddite, redditionis, redditis, redditur, reddituri, redditus, reddo, reddunt, tradam, tradamque, tradamus, tradant, tradantur, tradar, tradas, tradat, tradatis, tradatur, trade, tradebant, tradebat, tradebatur, trademini, tradenda, tradendus, tradens, tradensque, tradent, tradente, tradentes, tradentis, tradentque, tradentur, tradere, traderem, traderent, traderentur, traderer, traderes, traderet, traderetur, traderis, trades, tradet, tradetisque, tradetque, tradetur, tradi, tradideras, tradiderim, tradideris, tradiderit, tradideritis, tradideritque, tradidero, tradiderunt, tradidi, tradidimus, tradidique, tradidissemus, tradidissent, tradidisti, tradidistis, tradidit, tradiditque, tradimur, tradit, tradita, traditae, tradite, traditi, traditique, traditis, traditor, traditum, traditur, traditurum, traditurus, traditus, trado, traduntur. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: handover, overhand.

-2 letters: dehorn, hadron, harden, horned, vendor.

-3 letters: adore, adorn, anode, daven, denar, devon, doven, drave, drone, drove, hared, haven, haver, heard, heron, hoard, honda, honed, honer, horde, hover, novae, oared, oread, radon, raved, raven, redan, redon, roved, roven, vaned.

-4 letters: aeon, aero, arvo, aver, dare, darn, dean, dear, deva, doer, dona, done, dore, dove.

+1 letter: handovers, overhands.

+2 letters: overhanded, overhandle.

+3 letters: overhanding, overhandled, overhandles, servanthood.

+4 letters: overhandling, servanthoods.

+5 letters: overshadowing, photoengraved.