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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
E. L. Doctorow

Meaning of "hand over" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HAND OVER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HAND OVER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hand over is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb hand over in English.

WHAT DOES HAND OVER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Definition of hand over in the English dictionary

The definition of hand over in the dictionary is to surrender possession of; transfer. Other definition of hand over is a transfer or surrender.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HAND OVER

PRESENT

Present
I hand over
you hand over
he/she/it hands over
we hand over
you hand over
they hand over
Present continuous
I am handing over
you are handing over
he/she/it is handing over
we are handing over
you are handing over
they are handing over
Present perfect
I have handed over
you have handed over
he/she/it has handed over
we have handed over
you have handed over
they have handed over
Present perfect continuous
I have been handing over
you have been handing over
he/she/it has been handing over
we have been handing over
you have been handing over
they have been handing over
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I handed over
you handed over
he/she/it handed over
we handed over
you handed over
they handed over
Past continuous
I was handing over
you were handing over
he/she/it was handing over
we were handing over
you were handing over
they were handing over
Past perfect
I had handed over
you had handed over
he/she/it had handed over
we had handed over
you had handed over
they had handed over
Past perfect continuous
I had been handing over
you had been handing over
he/she/it had been handing over
we had been handing over
you had been handing over
they had been handing over
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will hand over
you will hand over
he/she/it will hand over
we will hand over
you will hand over
they will hand over
Future continuous
I will be handing over
you will be handing over
he/she/it will be handing over
we will be handing over
you will be handing over
they will be handing over
Future perfect
I will have handed over
you will have handed over
he/she/it will have handed over
we will have handed over
you will have handed over
they will have handed over
Future perfect continuous
I will have been handing over
you will have been handing over
he/she/it will have been handing over
we will have been handing over
you will have been handing over
they will have been handing over
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would hand over
you would hand over
he/she/it would hand over
we would hand over
you would hand over
they would hand over
Conditional continuous
I would be handing over
you would be handing over
he/she/it would be handing over
we would be handing over
you would be handing over
they would be handing over
Conditional perfect
I would have hand over
you would have hand over
he/she/it would have hand over
we would have hand over
you would have hand over
they would have hand over
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been handing over
you would have been handing over
he/she/it would have been handing over
we would have been handing over
you would have been handing over
they would have been handing over
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you hand over
we let´s hand over
you hand over
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to hand over
Past participle
handed over
Present Participle
handing over
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HAND OVER

hand down
hand drill
hand glass
hand grenade
hand in
hand in glove
hand in hand
hand it to someone
hand leather
hand lotion
hand luggage
hand of Fatima
hand on
hand organ
hand over fist
hand puppet
hand setting
hand signal
hand towel
hand truck

WORDS THAT END LIKE HAND OVER

all over
carry over
come over
get over
go over
hold over
hung over
look over
make over
over
over and over
pass over
piss all over
pull over
ride roughshod over
roll over
run over
take over
turn over
win over
work over

Synonyms and antonyms of hand over in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hand over» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HAND OVER

Find out the translation of hand over to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hand over from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hand over» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

交出
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

entregar
570 millions of speakers

English

hand over
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सौंप दो
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تسليم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сдать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

entregar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হস্তান্তর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

remettre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

serahkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

aushändigen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

手渡す
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

넘겨
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyerahke
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bàn giao
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒப்படை, பொறுப்பை ஒப்படை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हस्तांतरण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

teslim et
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

devolvere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przekazać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

здати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

predea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παραδώσει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorhandig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lämna över
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overlevere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hand over

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HAND OVER»

The term «hand over» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.766 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HAND OVER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hand over» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hand over» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hand over

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8 QUOTES WITH «HAND OVER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hand over.
1
Nate Berkus
We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.
2
Simon Callow
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
3
E. L. Doctorow
I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
4
Sigmar Gabriel
If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.
5
Brendan I. Koerner
A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
6
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.
7
Paul Tonko
Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.
8
David Zinczenko
I've spent more than a decade channeling information for and about men. I'm able to come and use this information, with the help of the research, to hand over the keys to the kingdom to women.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAND OVER»

Discover the use of hand over in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hand over and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Arm Around Shoulder/ Hand Over Mouth
Beautifully presented, this book is full of illustrations of the balance between loving those special in-laws God sends us and receiving grace with humility, then passing it on.
Mimi Moseley, 2009
2
Hand Over the Chocolate & No One Gets Hurt!
The perfect cookbook for chocoholics everywhere--78 decadent chocolate dessert recipes, like Death By Chocolate Cookies, Chocolate Truffle Pie, Chocolate Chunk Scones with Chocolate Butter, Chocolate Praline Sauce & Chocolate Mocha Punch.
Gloria Hander Lyons, 2008
3
Hand Over Your Heart
With high school graduation behind her, Lainey Martin is ready for a summer full of adventure.
Stacy Navarro, 2013
4
Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt
"Less stress, more fun!" Like chocolate, these 14 sure-fire stress-busters, hope-builders, and joy boosters get women feeling better fast.
Karen Scalf Linamen, 2002
5
Black Hand Over Kansas
This is the first in a series of three stand alone books.
Ernest C. Frazier, 1998
6
Nutrition Care of the Older Adult: a Handbook for Dietetics ...
This hand-over-hand assistance allows the client to continue to go through the motions of picking up the glass and directing the glass to the mouth, which fosters less chance of losing this ability (4). Hand-over-hand assistance can also be ...
Kathleen C. Niedert, Becky Dorner, 2004
7
Collective Responsibility
elderly woman from being beaten and robbed none of them has a moral obligation to hand over fifty dollars. For if one of them has an obligation to hand over fifty dollars, then each of them in a position to hand over fifty dollars has an obligation ...
Gregory Mellema, 1997
8
Crucial Elements of Police Firearms Training
Reloading Using the Hand-Over Technique The hand-over technique, as shown in Figure 62, requires that the operator use their support hand to properly load and clear the firearm. The hand-over technique uses the larger hand muscles to ...
Brian R. Johnson, 2007
9
A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee
2. hand over, pass this way, as when giving something. <ra+u.a (ir...), come in a line holding; cf. Ar. roo3at (ut...) hand over to> 1 . tatimu3a3 2. taruu3a3 3. taruu3aahu3 4. iriira- ruu3a 5. taruu3ahista • tiiraruu3a3 they drew them this way. ruu3at ...
Douglas Richard Parks, Lula Nora Pratt, 2008
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Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, ...
... showed a clear dominance of right hand over left, with most children being right-handed. The skill measure showed no overall dominance, half being more skilled with the right and half with the left. The implication is that handedness usually ...
Chris McManus, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAND OVER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hand over is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hong Kong residents hand over HK$27m after scam phone calls by …
Hongkongers hand over HK$27m to people posing as mainland officials in first six months of the year after just four similar cases last year. «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
2
UN calls on Palestinians in Gaza to hand over Israeli nationals - JTA
JERUSALEM (JTA) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Palestinians in Gaza to provide information about two Israelis ... «Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jul 15»
3
ISP forced to hand over details of online pirates - Intellectual …
Australia: ISP forced to hand over details of online pirates. Last Updated: 14 July 2015. Article by Peter Treloar · Shelston IP ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
4
MEC to hand over 400 houses and title deeds | The New Age Online
MEC for Human Settlements Helen Sauls-August will on Wednesday hand over 444 houses to families in the Joe Gqabi municipality, Eastern ... «The New Age Online, Jul 15»
5
Plymouth families could be forced to hand over homes as North …
HOME owners in North Prospect could be forced to sell-up after the council approved powers to push ahead with the next stage of the area's ... «Plymouth Herald, Jul 15»
6
Hand over desilting drains to MCD, North Corpn tells Delhi govt
“Thus the civic agency demands Delhi Chief Minister and PWD Minister to hand over the desilting work of drains to the municipal body.” «Deccan Herald, Jul 15»
7
IRS Ignores Deadline to Hand Over Lerner Emails | Fox Business
The Internal Revenue Service is ignoring a court-imposed deadline to turn over newly found Lois Lerner email documents essential to ... «Fox Business, Jul 15»
8
Pakistan PM's NSA Sartaj Aziz says to hand over dossier on alleged …
Aziz is expected to hand over a dossier on alleged Indian "interference" and "support" to groups such as Baloch separatists, who are locked in ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
9
Husband ordered to hand over all assets to wife in divorce case …
A hospital consultant who left his family and moved abroad has been ordered to hand his ex-wife all their assets, including a property and ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
10
Shocking video shows people willing to hand over lighter and …
Shocking video shows people willing to hand over lighter and cigarettes to 12-year-old boy. 15:39, 13 July 2015; By Kelly-Ann Mills ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»

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