Definition of "handing over" [handing over]

• Present participle of hand over. (verb)

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• "Certainly, as individuals we have become quite used to handing over some external sovereignty to a supraindividual body."
• "“Fine,” I say, handing over a pair of twenties as Evan relieves our butcher of the big chicken, grabbing its feet and deftly depositing it at the bottom of the plain brown-paper shopping bag we have carried in for just such an eventuality."
• "Igor would have given it to me, Sergei said, but he was traveling with Putin to Turkmenistan for the Caspian Sea Summit, so he was handing over the new text, in Russian, only three pages long."