trade hands

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trade hands

verb trades hands · trading hands · traded hands

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.
Similar: change hands

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@misc{trade_hands_2026,
  title = {trade hands},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/trade%20hands},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}