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What is "hands-off"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hands-off
adjective
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▪ A hands-off approach to macroeconomic management has the great virtue of leaving both hands free for microeconomic tasks.
▪ And in his case it's hard to fault the hands-off philosophy.
▪ I had no choice but to cut back to a hands-off style-getting involved in exceptions only.
▪ The hands-off policy was extended to the structure of citizen participation and the social targeting provisions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hands-off

also hands off, as an adjective, by 1895. As a command to desist, by 1810.

Wiktionary
hands-off

a. Tending not to intervene

WordNet
hands-off

adj. not involving participation or intervention; "a hands-off foreign policy"

Usage examples of "hands-off".

As far as the dirtsiders were concerned, space enjoyed the same kind of hands-off, lack of direct control that had been enjoyed by the people who, a half century earlier, had torn into the Amazon claiming they were finally opening it up to the twenty-first century.

A hands-off policy had backfired, the insurgents had gathered strength.

How reassuring it was, after so many hands-off months of shrinking, to noodle around in bodies, palpating a belly, percussing a spleen, auscultating a heart, the sounds calling up the anatomy--that squeak a tight aortic valve, that train rumble a leaky mitral.

That hands-off label is only good under certain conditions, Jass or no Jass.