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  • adjective not interfering with people's (employees, subjects etc) decisions and actions
  • interjection don't touch!
  • interjection nautical Cutting off a hand, decreed by old Admiralty law as punishment for pulling a knife during a fight with a shipmate.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hand off.

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