handsfree

or hands-free

[ handz-free ]

/ ˈhændzˌfri /

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adjective

not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.

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Also hand·free, hand-free

[hand-free] /ˈhændˌfri/ .

Origin of handsfree

hand + -s³ + -free

How to use handsfree in a sentence

“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.
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In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.
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Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
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The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
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Cambodia, with its seemingly free press, is also a haven for foreign journalists.
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What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
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It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.
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With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
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She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
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He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
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British Dictionary definitions for handsfree

hands-free

/ (ˈhændzˌfriː) /

adjective

denoting an electronic device, esp a mobile phone, which can be operated without using one's hands

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