hands-on

[ handz-on, -awn ]

/ ˈhændzˈɒn, -ˈɔn /

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adjective

characterized by or involved in active personal participation in an activity; individual and direct: a workshop to give children hands-on experience with computers.

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

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Origin of hands-on

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

Words nearby hands-on

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How to use hands-on in a sentence

Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
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Given that crucial importance, The Macallan is famously hands-on when it comes to its wooden barrels.
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For starters, from a purely practical, all-hands-on-deck position, I say if you can do the job, you should keep the job.
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Adelson is known for being a hands-on donor who makes decisions carefully.
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The “hands-on” laboratory allows visitors to use some of the technology, including being three-dimensionally scanned and printed.
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I am speaking of a new engagement in the lives of others, a new activism, hands-on and involved, that gets the job done.
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches|Various

British Dictionary definitions for hands-on

hands-on

adjective

involving practical experience of equipment, etchands-on training in the use of computers

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