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词汇 change hands
释义
Idiom
change hands
Theme: CHANGE
[for something] to be sold or passed from owner to owner.
How many times has this house changed hands in the last ten years?We built this house in 1920, and it has never changed hands.
Idiom
change hands
to be moved from one owner to another.
Today a record number of shares changed hands on the stock market.Over two centuries, this beautiful city on the border between the two countries changed hands at least four times.
idiomchange hands1 if a building, object, business etc changes hands it is sold to someone:About 162.4 million shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange today.The shop had changed hands many times before my mother bought it in 1974.2 if money changes hands, it is used to buy something:A lawyer for the Spectator refused to say how much money was changing hands.No money changes hands for drinks or, in fact, any purchases on board. Your bill is then settled the evening before you leave the ship.

change hands

To be acquired or bought by another person or group. The company has changed hands several times but is still on the verge of bankruptcy. The famous painting has changed hands only once since it was first sold.

change hands

[for something] to be sold or passed from owner to owner. (From the "point of view" of the object that is passed on.) How many times has this lot changed hands in the last ten years? We built this house in 1970, and it has never changed hands.

change hands

Pass from one owner to another. For example, This house seems to change hands every other year, or The contract is valid only when money changes hands. [Second half of 1600s]

change hands

COMMON If something changes hands, one person or organization gets it from another, usually by buying it. A bottle of this wine cost around £2 in 1962. Today, the same bottle would change hands for anything up to four hundred pounds. The property has changed hands several times recently. Note: When something is sold for a particular amount of money, you say that amount of money changes hands. Record sums of money changed hands at Christie's in New York, where a portrait by Vincent Van Gogh has been sold for more than eighty million dollars.

change hands

1 (of a business or building) pass to a different owner. 2 (of money or a marketable commodity) pass to another person in the course of a business transaction.

change ˈhands

pass to a different owner: The house has changed hands several times.

change hands

To pass from one owner to another.
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