The phrase "a handing" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward or unclear.
It could potentially be used in contexts where "handing" refers to the act of giving or delivering something, but it is not standard.
Example: "After a long discussion, there was a handing of the documents to the committee."
Alternatives: "a delivery" or "a passing".
It is a handing on of the baton, showing that liberalism is not in retreat everywhere.
Did that represent a handing over of the baton, or a vertiginous drop down in terms of quality?
She still has multiple shots at getting to the Games, but that she has struggled so far is indicative that a handing of the baton is underway.
German law, on the other hand, following Roman law, requires that there be a handing over of the thing from the seller to the buyer before title may pass.
In the early films these appearances served to highlight the deficiencies of the child thespians, but it's become apparent as the series has run that there has also been a handing over of the baton to a new generation.
After an initial meeting, a handing over of a CV or a proposal, the hopefuls never heard from On-Point again, while Gwangwa and Malema's company used their details to pretend they had a real company.
— Nostranditmas, Brooklyn A hand held stapler.
There's no new ambassador yet, though, and so he and others decided not to have a handing-over ceremony.
Where in the past salvos have been fired between Idowu and UK Athletics officials, today's squad announcement was more akin to a handing-over of an olive branch.
Liverpool's year as European capital of culture comes to an end this Saturday, with a handing-over ceremony to Linz in Austria and Vilnius in Lithuania against the backdrop of the historic waterfront.
It's kind of a handing-the-baton type of thing, at least until you get a little bit of a run back.' "I know that you've got to be confident.
