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hands-off

[handz-awf, -of] / ˈhændzˈɔf, -ˈɒf /


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“Does Amazon just take a hands-off approach? Do they evaluate these operators? We don’t know.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

They have not been treated respectfully; hence the refusal to issue a hands-off order on Kyiv’s airport while the two were in town.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

The EA and Natural Resource Wales grant abstraction licences to farms, but when water levels drop they can impose what is called a "hands-off flow restriction".

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

For Norcliffe, the ultimate goal is to build deep, hands-off trust.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

By the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, landlords in central and Southern China had an almost completely hands-off relationship with their tenants: they would collect a fixed rent and let farmers go about their business.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell



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