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arm's length - 2 dictionary results

arm's-length

[ahrmz-lengkth, -length]
–adjective
not closely or intimately connected or associated; distant; remote: an arm's-length relationship.

Origin:
1645–55

Main Entry: arm's length
Function: noun
: the condition of the parties to a business deal in which each has independent interests and one does not dominate the other —often used in the phrase at arm's length arm's length> —arm's–length adjective
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