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trades hands

trades hands is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 trades hands

What is trades hands the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Trades hands is the third-person singular simple present indicative of trade hands.

Words near trades hands in the dictionary

  1. tradership
  2. traderships
  3. trades
  4. trades away
  5. trades down
  6. trades hands
  7. trades in
  8. trades off
  9. trades paint
  10. trades places
  11. trades union

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