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hands-off

ADJECTIVE
  1. not involving participation or intervention
    a hands-off foreign policy

How To Use hands-off In A Sentence

  • The USA has had to take an hands-off approach to the Salvadorean election ... for once forbearing, at least overtly, to threaten that tiny nation with dire consequences for voting its conscience. It truly soothes the soul to watch the USA empire in its death-throes...
  • The hands-off policy was extended to the structure of citizen participation and the social targeting provisions.
  • And they'd be especially outraged because the cops hadn't treated me with the kind of fastidious, hands-off politeness that they'd never expect from a retail clerk. Only What You Bring With You
  • Amazon RDS offloads from the customer's staff a number of routine MySQL maintenance operation tasks. It begins with hands-off database computing resources scalability, and performance monitoring.
  • [...] [T] oday the state acts as a hands-off licensing bureau and divorce granter, making marriage relatively easy to enter and exit, yet maintain legal marital status as a key determinant of eligibility for more than one thousand federal rights and obligations. Bella DePaulo: Challenges to the Privileging of Married People, from Across the Ideological Spectrum
  • R—, a woman with whom I was more than casually preoccupied during my last few months in the city, and who belonged to a top-story, hands-off-you-sodden-peasant Garden District social caste, owned a large, enviable collection of 1970s soul LPs that she had arranged in a kind of rampart around her unmade, canopied, arrantly invitational bed. Living With Music: Bill Cotter - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
  • These are hands-off, no-go, sacrosanct areas that the British prime minister cannot afford to have tampered with.
  • Paul has a hands-off style of management.
  • As soon as the airspeed is steady in the climb, trim the aircraft to hold that attitude hands-off.
  • He was a hands-off type of manager, fairly popular with the staff, whom we rarely caught sight of. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
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