handoff
B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The structured transfer of responsibility and clinical information about a patient from one nurse or team to another.
During handoff the outgoing nurse used the SBAR format to communicate the patient's deteriorating renal function.
Business noun
The point at which responsibility for a piece of work passes from one party to another.
Most delays traced back to a sloppy handoff between design and build.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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