hand off

See also: handoff and hand-off

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

hand off (third-person singular simple present hands off, present participle handing off, simple past and past participle handed off)

(American football) to pass (the ball) to a teammate
(idiomatic, transitive) to pass or transfer.
Coordinate terms: drop off, hand over

Before we hand off the project to him, let's make sure to write some instructions.

Translations

to pass or transfer

Esperanto: delokigi, pasi
Finnish: siirtää (fi), luovuttaa (fi)
French: passer (fr), transférer (fr)
Portuguese: passar (pt), transferir (pt)
Swedish: lämna över (sv)

Anagrams

off-hand, offhand