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change hands

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change hands
[for something] to be sold or passed from owner to owner. (From the "point of view" of the object that is passed on.) How many times has this lot changed hands in the last ten years? We built this house in 1970, and it has never changed hands.
See also: change, hand

change hands
to be sold by someone and bought by another person The hotel has changed hands twice since 1982.
See also: change, hand

change hands
to be moved from one owner to another Today a record number of shares changed hands on the stock market. Over two centuries, this beautiful city on the border between the two countries changed hands at least four times.
See also: change, hand


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"It's one thing," he said, "to write under the dictation of a great merchant, conducting a vast correspondence by which thousands of pounds change hands in due course of post.
The paper is about to change hands, and in three days more will be on our side.
 
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