trade hands

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.

   Synonym: change hands

   • 2014, Paul Oyer, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2017, William Galston, Philosophical Dimensions of Public Policy, →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.

   • 2002, Robert E. Wright, The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered, →ISBN:

     Between 1814 and 1845, exactly 15,500 shares traded hands in 1,167 transactions, an average of 500 shares per year.