handover
B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The structured transfer of clinical information and responsibility when a patient moves between staff or teams.
The paramedics gave a clear handover before wheeling the patient into resus.
Business noun
The formal transfer of responsibility, knowledge or a deliverable from one party to another.
A rushed handover left the support team without runbooks, and the first outage exposed it immediately.
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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