change hands
change hands · changes hands · changed hands · changing hands
To become the property of someone elseTo become the property of someone else; to be bought or sold.
Meaning
1 senses(idiomatic)To become the property of someone else; to be bought or sold.
The food got a lot worse after the restaurant changed hands.
More definitions
- be transferred to another owner
Translations
3 languagesForms
changes hands, changing hands, changed hands, changed hands| Base form | change hands · to change hands |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | changes hands |
| Present participle | changing hands |
| Past simple | changed hands |
| Past participle | changed hands |
irregular
Synonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- be transferred to another owner:change owners
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedchange hand
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.