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)

1. (American football) to pass (the ball) to a teammate
2. (idiomatic, transitive) to pass or transfer.

   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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: lämna över (sv)

Anagrams

• off-hand, offhand