Noun
the act of passing something to another person
Source: WordNetWatching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. Jim Bishop
I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous. Sylvia Plath
We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people. Sherrod Brown
If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you? (28) [tr. Elizabeth Carter]. Epictetus
Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy) Walter Isaacson
We, as lawyers, as men of business, as men of experience, know perfectly well what evils necessarily result from handing over a great family estate to a mortgagee in possession, whose only chance of getting his money is to sacrifice the interests of everybody to money-getting. Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley