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baton noun [ ˈbat(ə)n ]

• a thin stick used by a conductor to direct an orchestra or choir.
Similar: stick, rod, staff, wand, bar,
Origin: early 16th century (denoting a staff or cudgel): from French bâton, earlier baston, from late Latin bastum ‘stick’.

pass the baton

• hand over a particular duty or responsibility.
"the technique allows us to pass the baton to the next generation"

take up the baton

• accept a particular duty or responsibility.
"it was left to the capital's campuses to take up the baton"

under the baton of

• (of an orchestra or choir) conducted by.
"the contract also allows for the orchestra to record under the baton of Sir Edward Downes"



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