change owners

1. 1.

   be transferred to another owner

   “This restaurant changed hands twice last year”

   Synonymschange hands

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Questions about change owners

What does change owners mean?

change owners means "be transferred to another owner".

What is another word for change owners?

Close synonyms include change hands. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is change owners a common word?

change owners is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.