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trade hands en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To change ownership.
    • Also, no money trades hands. This lack of money may make the dating market not seem like a market at all, but eighteen years of economics training has allowed me to see economics everywhere. 2014, Paul Oyer, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating, →ISBN:
    • The price at which a good or service trades hands reflects the cost to the producer plus whatever profit he can get in a competitive market. 2017, William Galston, Philosophical Dimensions of Public Policy, →ISBN:
    • Between 1814 and 1845, exactly 15,500 shares traded hands in 1,167 transactions, an average of 500 shares per year. 2002, Robert E. Wright, The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
trading hands Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trades hands Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
traded hands Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
traded hands Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

change hands