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hands-on
[ handz-on, -awn ]
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.
hands-on
adjective
- involving practical experience of equipment, etc
hands-on training in the use of computers
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
Given that crucial importance, The Macallan is famously hands-on when it comes to its wooden barrels.
For starters, from a purely practical, all-hands-on-deck position, I say if you can do the job, you should keep the job.
Adelson is known for being a hands-on donor who makes decisions carefully.
The “hands-on” laboratory allows visitors to use some of the technology, including being three-dimensionally scanned and printed.
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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