change hands

English

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Verb

change hands (third-person singular simple present changes hands, present participle changing hands, simple past and past participle changed hands)

1. (idiomatic) To become the property of someone else; to be bought or sold.

   Synonym: trade hands

   The food got a lot worse after the restaurant changed hands.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 210:

     The line has since changed hands several times, and is now to re-open as a preserved railway (a railway for leisure only), running vintage diesels and electrics, but with the aim of restoring steam.

Translations

to become the property of someone else.

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 易手 (zh) (yìshǒu), 倒手 (zh) (dǎoshǒu) (of merchandise)

• Czech: změnit majitele
• Finnish: vaihtaa omistajaa
• French: changer de main (fr)
• Hungarian: gazdát cserél
• Italian: cambiare di mano, cambiare proprietario, cambiare esercente
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: please add this translation if you can

• Spanish: cambiar de manos (es)

See also

• change hand