hands-on

[ handz-on, -awn ]
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adjective
  1. characterized by or involved in active personal participation in an activity; individual and direct: a workshop to give children hands-on experience with computers.

  2. requiring manual operation, control, adjustment, or the like; not automatic or computerized: the old hands-on telephone switchboards.

Origin of hands-on

1
First recorded in 1905–10; by analogy with hands-off

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British Dictionary definitions for hands-on

hands-on

adjective
  1. involving practical experience of equipment, etc: hands-on training in the use of computers

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