Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Involving active participation; applied, as opposed to theoretical: "We're involved in hands-on operations, pulling levers, pushing buttons” ( Arthur R. Taylor).
Wiktionary
- adj. involving active participation
WordNet 3.0
- adj. involving active participation
Examples
“This is what you called a hands-on job,' she said.”
“F = Designer and artisan: professions and fields that entail hands-on designing and crafting of artistic and functional objects and employ an eye for visual design, color, style, and a keen sense of spatial acuity”
“And Harbaugh, known as a hands-on coach, didn't disappoint - at one point screaming, That was a great rep!”
“Daddy was never what you’d call a hands-on father, but he’d never been so distant.”
“To an untrained eye, this preparation looks no different than someone receiving a hands-on healing.”
“An independent chair cannot be expected to have — and in most cases, will not have — hands-on knowledge about fund operations.”
SEC Taxes Mutual Funds?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“It's tough to believe any reputable doctor could prescribe Viagra (say) without a hands-on medical exam, but it does occur.”
Online Trade Barriers, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“He used the expertise of intellectuals and hands-on experts in financing, like Felix Rohatyn and Dick Ravitch to propose and implement plans to stop the hemorrhaging in the city, imposing an "Emergency Financial Control Board" to pass on the city's finances and budget with the power to reject appropriations and contracts adopted by the mayor and city council.”
The Huffington Post: Ed Koch: Hugh Carey, New York's Greatest Governor of the Modern Era
“Yet, being a Nobel recipient does not mean one is qualified for every conceivable position," the lawmaker said at the hearing, saying Diamond lacks hands-on experience regulating banks and managing financial crises.”
“PARENTING & KIDS 'HEALTH NEWS: ONLY ON USA TODAYNew daditude: Today's fathers are hands-on, pressure offTV: Impairs speech | Leads to earlier sexBaby names: What's popular?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hands-on’.
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Handy Words
List of words and phrases referring to the hand, hands, fist, or derivatives of the Latin manus, beginning with left-handed.
left-handed, double-fisted, fisticuffs, handy, right-handed, two-handed, manual, manumission, manuscript, manually, manustupration, manudiction and 164 more...
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Touchy
Touch-sense metaphors, words and terms.
Includes general touch-oriented metaphors; words that seem like puns but reference the sense of touch, like: grasp (to grasp a concept), feeli...kinaesthesia, somatosensory, grasp, feelings, touchy, rubs, poke, kinesthetic, feels, hold, hands-on, moving and 14 more...
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Tangible
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