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CHANGE HANDS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be transferred to another owner

Example:

This restaurant changed hands twice last year

Synonyms:

change hands; change owners

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

Credits