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hands-on

[handz-on, -awn]

adjective

  1. characterized by or involved in active personal participation in an activity; individual and direct.

    a workshop to give children hands-on experience with computers.

  2. requiring manual operation, control, adjustment, or the like; not automatic or computerized.

    the old hands-on telephone switchboards.



hands-on

adjective

  1. involving practical experience of equipment, etc

    hands-on training in the use of computers

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hands-on1

First recorded in 1905–10; by analogy with hands-off
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It’s a reminder that sometimes, the best cooking isn’t hands-on.

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The larger the organisation, the more difficult it is to show that senior management have had "any hands-on involvement in events".

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The hands-on classes at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona represented the first step toward achieving that dream.

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The new studio is essentially a rare hands-on museum where students and commercial artists may study and perform the same techniques Paul employed, using his tools.

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The first students graduated this year from Hereford's New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering, he said, with the "hands-on skill of an apprenticeship, but also the rigour of a master's degree".

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