handback
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Presumably from the verb hand + back
Noun
[edit]handback (plural handbacks)
- The act of handing something back.
- 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 59:
- '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.'
Usage notes
[edit]In the British rail industry this appears to relate to handing back a railway line after an engineering possession, where the line has to be closed for work to be carried out.