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means The act of transferring responsibility, duties, or control from one person or group to another.

from A straightforward compound of 'hand' and 'over' — literally to hand something over. The verb phrase 'hand over' dates to at least the 1700s meaning to deliver or relinquish something into another's grasp; the noun form 'handover' emerged much later, especially in administrative and political contexts, to describe the formal transfer of power, territory, or duties — think colonial withdrawals and shift-change paperwork.