hands-off
Use Hands-off in a sentence
adjective
1.
characterized by nonintervention or noninterference: the new hands-off foreign policy.
2.
remote or unfriendly; estranging: a truculent, hands-off manner toward strangers.
Origin:
1900–05
1900–05
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| hands-off | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | (of a machine, device, etc) without need of manual operation |
| 2. | denoting a policy, etc, of deliberate noninvolvement: a hands-off strategy towards industry |
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Hands-off
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example sentences
Some people, perhaps those who design training programs, think policing should be a hands-off job.
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