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hand sb/sth over

Phrasal Verb with hand
 
 
/hænd/ verb [+ two objects]

Definition

to give someone or something to someone else: The hijacker was handed over to the French police.
(Definition of hand sb/sth over from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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