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CHANGE OWNERS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does change owners mean?

• CHANGE OWNERS (verb)
The verb CHANGE OWNERS has 1 sense:

1. be transferred to another owner

Familiarity information: CHANGE OWNERS used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CHANGE OWNERS (verb)

Sense 1

change owners ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Be transferred to another owner

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

change hands; change owners

Context example:

This restaurant changed hands twice last year

Hypernyms (to "change owners" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change owners"):

vest (become legally vested)

devolve; fall; pass; return (be inherited by)

accrue; fall (come into the possession of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

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