CHANGE HANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does change hands mean? 

• CHANGE HANDS (verb)
  The verb CHANGE HANDS has 1 sense:

1. be transferred to another owner

  Familiarity information: CHANGE HANDS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGE HANDS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be transferred to another owner

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

change hands; change owners

Context example:

This restaurant changed hands twice last year

Hypernyms (to "change hands" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change hands"):

vest (become legally vested)

devolve; fall; pass; return (be inherited by)

accrue; fall (come into the possession of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

“First knock-down for Harrison!” roared a thousand voices, for ten times as many pounds would change hands upon the point.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)