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hands-off

hands-off is the alternative spelling of hands off.

Meaning of hands off

Adjective

hands off (comparative more hands off, superlative most hands off)

  1. Tending not to interfere with the decisions and actions of other people (employees, subjects, etc.).
    • a hands-off policy
    Antonyms:
    hands-on

See all 3 meanings of hands off

Forms of hands-off

comparativemore hands-off
superlativemost hands-off

Questions about hands-off

What is hands-off the alternative spelling of?
Hands-off is the alternative spelling of hands off.

Words near hands-off in the dictionary

  1. hands up
  2. hands-down
  3. hands-free
  4. hands-frees
  5. hands-in
  6. hands-off
  7. hands-on
  8. hands-ons
  9. Handsacre
  10. handsale
  11. handsaw

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hands-off (page history and authors); hands off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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