handover vs remission

handover

noun
  • The transfer of goods from the dealer to the purchaser, often of illegal goods. 

  • the process of transferring an ongoing call or data session from one channel connected to the core network to another channel. 

  • The transference of authority, control, power or knowledge from one agency to another, or from one state to another. 

  • the process of transferring satellite control responsibility from one earth station to another without loss or interruption of service. 

  • The information passed on in such a case. 

remission

noun
  • An act of remitting, returning, or sending back. 

  • A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour. 

  • A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt. 

  • An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent. 

  • A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing. 

  • A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal. 

  • Reflection or scattering of light by a material; reemission. 

verb
  • To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission. 

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