Giving and transferring
Synonyms for handover
The synonym for handover recorded in this bank is transfer, in the sense "the act of formally giving control or possession of something to someone else". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for handover
- transfernoun, in the sense "the act of formally giving control or possession of something to someone else"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and handover carries one sense so far.
the act of formally giving control or possession of something to someone else
The handover of the keys took place in the lawyer's office.
The true synonym
transfer
Same sentence, swapped: The transfer of the keys took place in the lawyer's office.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- inspection
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- auction
Where handover turns up in the game
handover is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play handover
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so handover reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from giving and transferring at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. handover carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.