trade hands

present singular third person trades hands · participle present trading hands · participle past traded hands · past traded hands

1. idiomaticTo change ownership.

   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

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   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

   Synonyms: change hands