change owners


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Verb1.change owners - be transferred to another owner; "This restaurant changed hands twice last year"
change hands
move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
vest - become legally vested; "The property vests in the trustees"
devolve, return, fall, pass - be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
accrue, fall - come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son"
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He had seen dogs change owners in the past, and he had seen the runaways beaten as he was being beaten.
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