Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb change_hands

1 sense of change hands

Sense 1
change hands, change owners -- (be transferred to another owner; "This restaurant changed hands twice last year")
       => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant")