change hands

Other forms: changed hands; changing hands; changes hands

Definitions of change hands

1. verb

   be transferred to another owner
   “This restaurant changed hands twice last year”

   synonyms: change owners

   types:

   vest

   become legally vested

   devolve, fall, pass, return

   be inherited by

   accrue, fall

   come into the possession of

   fall, light

   fall to somebody by assignment or lot

   type of:

   displace, move

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