handovernoun [ U ]
uk/ˈhæn.dəʊ.vər/us/ˈhæn.doʊ.vɚ/the giving of control of or responsibility for something to someone else:
The United Nations is to supervise the handover of the prisoners of war.
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Promoting staff
- aggrandizement
- ascend
- career-limiting
- demote
- depute
- exalt
- fast track
- free transfer
- in the wilderness idiom
- install
- kick
- rank
- relegate
- second 1
- subordination
- time-scale promotion
- transfer
- upgradation
- upshifter
- vault
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