handovern.
/ˈhandˌəʊvə/, U.S. /ˈhændˌoʊvər/ 1. The act or an instance of handing over a person or thing (literal and figurative); spec. the transferring of power or responsibility from one country, administration, body, etc., to another, or the period during which this is done.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > [noun] > handing over or giving up to another
liverya1325
liverancec1390
deliverancea1400
teachinga1400
overgiving1465
delivery1480
render1548
consignation1612
delivering1642
shift1826
handover1847
driveaway1917
1847 Satirist 218/2 At ‘election times’ there is nothing so good as to be secure of your handover.
1898 Warwick (Queensland) Examiner & Times 16 Mar. 3/2 The general hand-over of the treasures of the Brisbane banks to the conqueror.
1961 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 4 Feb. 1/4 President Quadros..then announced the handover of the ship to Portuguese authorities.
1986 D. Hart-Davis Hitler's Games xiv. 198 They were hampered by poor handovers and would have come fourth if Osendarp of Holland hadn't dropped the baton.
1997 U.S. News & Wor. Rld Rep. 14 July 38/1 The handover of Hong Kong to China after 156 years of British rule was one of history's longest goodbyes.
2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 May (Central ed.) a18/2 Labour rebels want the Prime Minister to set a date for a handover to Mr. Brown.
2010 V. Bruce & K. Hayes Hostage Nation xx. 270 Guerrillas had agreed to turn over four hostages to her... They landed in an initial meeting place..to organize the handover.
2. Telecommunications and Computing. An instance of handing over a connection or call from one base station, network, etc., to another (cf. to hand over 3 at hand v. Phrasal verbs, hand-off n. 3).
ΚΠ
1961 Communications Satellites: Hearings before Comm. Sci. & Astronautics (U.S. House of Representatives, 87th Congr., 1st Sess.) ii. 894 Nonstationary systems require a circuit hand-over from the antenna tracking the descending satellite to that tracking the ascending one.
1983 New Scientist 3 Nov. 344/2 The handover from one frequency to another as a mobile crosses into the next cell.
1998 What Cellphone Nov. 62/2 The earpiece is loud and handover between cellsites is swift and without audible dropout.
2012 Business & Finance Mag. (Nexis) 31 Mar. A lot of the new handsets are developed to allow a seamless handover between 3G, WiFi and 4G.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1847