The emergency regulations ordinance, created by British authorities to break up port strikes in 1922, had not been used for over half a century, and never since the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997.
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Handover
Synonyms for "handover" (2 found)
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16 translations across 12 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 交接 noun (transference of authority)
Czech
1 entries- předání noun (transference of authority)
Finnish
1 entries- siirto noun (transference of authority)
French
2 entries- passation noun (transference of authority)
- rétrocession noun (transference of authority)
German
1 entries- Übergabe noun (transference of authority)
Hungarian
1 entries- átadás noun (transference of authority)
Italian
2 entries- consegna noun (transference of authority)
- passaggio di consegne noun (transference of authority)
Low German
1 entries- Övergaav noun (transference of authority)
Polish
1 entries- przekazanie noun (transference of authority)
Russian
1 entries- переда́ча noun (transference of authority)
Spanish
3 entries- entrega noun (transference of authority)
- transferencia noun (transference of authority)
- traspaso noun (transference of authority)
Turkish
1 entries- devir teslim noun (transference of authority)
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The daytime team got an urgent handover from the afterhours department.
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Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.
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