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[ handz -on , -awn ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈhændzˈɒn, -ˈɔn / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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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.
Origin of hands-on First recorded in 1905–10; by analogy with hands-off
Words nearby hands-on handshape, hands-off, handsome, handsome is as handsome does, handsomely, hands-on , handspike, handspring, handstand, handstitch, handstroke
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Example sentences from the Web for hands-on Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on ” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
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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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Being a parent myself has given me both additional sympathy and some hands-on experience with things that seem to be effective.
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It informs and will inspire some to become more engaged in a hands-on way.
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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.
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British Dictionary definitions for hands-on adjective involving practical experience of equipment, etc hands-on training in the use of computers
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Words related to hands-on firsthand, manual, primary, direct, individual, explicit, immediate, intimate, experienced