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traded hands

traded hands is the simple past and past participle of trade hands.

Meaning of trade hands

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

Questions about traded hands

What is traded hands the simple past and past participle of?
Traded hands is the simple past and past participle of trade hands.

Words near traded hands in the dictionary

  1. tradecraft
  2. tradecrafts
  3. traded
  4. traded away
  5. traded down
  6. traded hands
  7. traded in
  8. traded off
  9. traded paint
  10. traded places
  11. traded up

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