to hand off
22
3.7
- phrasal verb
- /hænd ɔf/
- US
:
delegar en
- Are you willing to hand off the work to a middleman, or not?
We could actually trace down where they handed off their plates to their kids.
- We could actually trace down where they handed off their plates to their kids.
- Yeah, so let's say you have something that needs to be delivered on Friday and you were going to do it, but instead you hand it off to your chief of staff.
Examples
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The manager will hand off the responsibilities to the new team leader next week.
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So you're going to hand off everything you got to him, you understand?
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I usually hand off some of the work to the other folks who live here.
Blog text (2) -
We'll hand this off to Drew and I never want to touch these again.
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U.S. teams may make changes based on customer feedback and hand off the work to India at the end of the day.
Academic text (2005) -
You'll need to be able to hand off tasks and duties to others.
Blog text (21) -
Customers are very happy to hand off the responsibility of protecting their applications and guaranteeing compliance to the experts.
Blog text (32) -
And on that note, I would like to hand things off to the mission head of this historic expedition, Lead Astronaut Sarah Elliot.
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She decided to hand off her project to her colleague before going on vacation.
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After the meeting, I will hand off the report to my assistant for further processing.
Synonyms
∞
1.7
To let another person take care of something or someone
∞
1.0
To give something to someone
313
3.0
To hand someone or something to another person, an authority
296
2.8
Give something to someone because you have to
248
3.2
Give a person or thing to someone else to look after
134
2.7
To give something to another person, often information or a message
6
5.5
To officially give property or rights to someone
5
4.2
To give a task or responsibility to someone else to reduce your work
4
4.1
Give responsibility for your job to the person who will replace you
1
3.5
To give responsibility or control to another person during a planned change
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense of transferring or passing something on is directly derivable from 'hand' (to give or pass) combined with 'off' (away/to another), so the telecom meaning of transferring a call follows the same compositional logic. This verb+particle pattern is common and cross-linguistically recognizable, making the meaning predictable for a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Hand off comes from the simple image of taking something in your hand and passing it off to the next person. So it means 'to transfer' an object or responsibility to someone else.