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CHANGE OWNERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does change owners mean? 

CHANGE OWNERS (verb)
  The verb CHANGE OWNERS has 1 sense:

1. be transferred to another ownerplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CHANGE OWNERS (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 owners" 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 owners"):

vest (become legally vested)

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

accrue; fall (come into the possession of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s


 Context examples 


He had seen dogs change owners in the past, and he had seen the runaways beaten as he was being beaten.

(White Fang, by Jack London)



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