Definition of "hand over" []

• To relinquish control or possession of something to someone; overgive. (verb)

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• "Ropes offered lifelines; we hastened hand over hand to join them, Caroline first."
• "In 1840 Propaganda issued a decree that each bishop should make some fellow-bishop his heir, and that, on the death or resignation of the former, the latter should then hand over the property to the new bishop."
• "Guilfoyle did not return Digger's call on Tuesday, but he has previously stated that he knew nothing of Heaney's intention to hand over the football operations to Ridsdale for £1 until a week before it was announced."