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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
It’s a reminder that sometimes, the best cooking isn’t hands-on.
The larger the organisation, the more difficult it is to show that senior management have had "any hands-on involvement in events".
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.
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.
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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