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all-hands

all-hands adjective: requiring the involvement of everyone available.

Adjective

all-hands (not comparable)

  1. Requiring the involvement of everyone available.

Questions about all-hands

What does all-hands mean?
All-hands means requiring the involvement of everyone available.
What part of speech is all-hands?
All-hands is an adjective.

Words near all-hands in the dictionary

  1. all-good
  2. all-hail
  3. all-hailed
  4. all-hailing
  5. all-hails
  6. all-hands
  7. all-hang-out
  8. all-heal
  9. all-healing
  10. all-heals
  11. all-important

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