trade hands
verb1
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:
- 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.2017, William Galston, Philosophical Dimensions of Public Policy, →ISBN:
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- Between 1814 and 1845, exactly 15,500 shares traded hands in 1,167 transactions, an average of 500 shares per year.2002, Robert E. Wright, The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered, →ISBN: