handed off
Gave to another
Handed off is the past tense of hand off, meaning to pass something directly to another person.
A runner hands off the baton in a relay race; a quarterback hands off the football to a running back.
The term extends to any transfer of responsibility: She handed off the project to her colleague before going on leave.
The noun handoff describes this kind of transfer.
- delegatedAssigned to a subordinate
- passedWent beyond or succeeded
- pass the torchTransfer duty to successor
- assignedGiven as duty
- deliveredBrought to recipient
entrusted · lateral pass · relay race · relinquished · transmitted · torch passing · outsourced · passing the buck · transitioned · smooth transition · shifted · hot potato · commissioned · transferred · relayed · conveyed · exchanged · allocated
- ___-handed wordsbackhanded, underhanded, ambidextrous
- turn overflip, flipped, rotate, rotated, invert