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Definition of Hands-off
1. Adjective. Not involving participation or intervention. "A hands-off foreign policy"
Definition of Hands-off
1. Adjective. Tending not to intervene ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hands-off
Literary usage of Hands-off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"She prized one of his hands off his clutched head and turned it over, then swiftly
drew the blade across his palm, laying it open to the muscle. ..."
2. "An American commoner": the life and times of Richard Parks Bland. A study by William Vincent Byars (1900)
"Turgot and Quesnay as Representatives of Sanity and the Principles of Progress.—Mr.
Bland's Work Justified by the Strictest Standard of Turgot.—"Hands Off! ..."
3. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"itself provided the Papacy would keep its hands off the politics of Germany.
They were retained as a handy classification but were replaced in practice by ..."
4. Original Plays by William Schwenck Gilbert (1908)
"Didst thou hear her say, "Hands off?" 1st Oit. Ay, I heard her say it, and I felt
her do ... She said " Hands off!" Whose hands? Thine. Off what? Off her. ..."
5. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770: Consisting of the Narrative by Frederic Kidder, John Adams (1870)
"... that is a blow; the law will not oblige a man to stand still and bear it;
there is the distinction ; hands off, touch me not; as soon as you touch me, ..."
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