"trade hands" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: trades hands [present, singular, third-person], trading hands [participle, present], traded hands [participle, past], traded hands [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} trade hands (third-person singular simple present trades hands, present participle trading hands, simple past and past participle traded hands)
  1. (idiomatic) To change ownership. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: change hands
    Sense id: en-trade_hands-en-verb-BVYdV1mU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for trade hands meaning in English (1.8kB)

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          "ref": "2014, Paul Oyer, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating",
          "text": "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.",
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