Meanings
nounhandback (plural handbacks)
plural handbacks
- The act of handing something back.
'Route director Gary Walsh and I will be refreshing the meeting structures and we are already looking much more at passenger issues and areas like late handbacks of possessions.'
2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 59
Origin
Presumably from the verb hand + back
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APA
handback. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handback
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“handback.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handback. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “handback,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handback.
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