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change hands

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  1. be transferred to another owner
    This restaurant changed hands twice last year

How To Use change hands In A Sentence

  • The trader dishes the CDs out as fivers and tenners change hands.
  • Those elections are a Hypersouk [souk is Arabic for traditional rural market] where votes change hands, are auctioned, sold off. Global Voices in English » Morocco: Campaigning for the Disenchanted
  • His helper passes the CDs to him from a three-feet-deep cardboard box and the trader dishes them out to supporters as fivers and tenners change hands.
  • If it was sold to a developer, a considerable amount of money could change hands.
  • If it was sold to a developer, a considerable amount of money could change hands.
  • The practice is so widespread that some notaries who witness real estate closings are said to set aside rooms for cash to change hands discreetly.
  • He was not, however, awarded the WWE Championship because the title cannot change hands on a count-out. WWE Championship
  • Smith McNell's, the old down-town restaurant and hotel, will change hands shortly for the first time in its long career.
  • Crores of rupees change hands and children are forced to become slaves.
  • The only painting of his to change hands in recent years was a Nativity, stolen in 1969 from a church in Palermo - where Caravaggio had painted it after having escaped from gaol in Malta.
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