hands-onadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˌhændˈzɒn/us/ˌhændˈzɑːn/hands-on adjective [ before noun ] (INVOLVED)
Someone with a hands-on way of doing things becomes closely involved in managing and organizing things and in making decisions:
She's very much a hands-on manager.
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Excited, interested and enthusiastic
- aflutter
- agog
- all of a flutter idiom
- amped
- animated
- be as high as a kite idiom
- exhilarated
- fanatical
- fascinated
- fasten
- fasten on/upon sth
- flushed
- flutter
- knot
- overzealous
- passionate
- pop-eyed
- potty
- psyched
- sniff
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hands-on adjective [ before noun ] (PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE)
Someone who has hands-on experience of something has done or used it rather than just read or learned about it:
Many employers consider hands-on experience to be as useful as academic qualifications.
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Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- get/have your fingers burned idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hold
- hold on
- ride
- run into sth
- sample
- seat
- sense
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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