Synonyms for hands-on
hands-on

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1. hands-onadjective

   Synonyms:
   at the coal face, in the trenches, front line

2. hands-onadjective

   involving active participation

   Synonyms:
   in the trenches, at the coal face, front line

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1. hands-onadjective

   involving active participation

   "he's a hands-on manager"; "hands-on operations"

   Antonyms:
   inactive, passive

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1. List of paraphrases for "hands-on":

   practice, practical, practices, tactile

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1. Charles Gerba:

   Refrigerator handles are usually bad because the people will handle raw meat products and then go into the fridge to get something else without thinking, and people tend to hang their contaminated kitchen towels on there, which they'll use to wipe their hands on after handling meat.

2. Wendy Sherman:

   This is an all-hands-on-deck effort and we’re aren’t going to let up.

3. Sophia Contos:

   He's looking around, looking at the cookies, and I keep my hands on the box, and (he starts) to pull away and all of a sudden he goes for it. I jerk it away, but then he's like too strong, so he gets it.

4. Susan Kelechi Watson:

   It's time for teamwork now, it's like all hands on deck -- and that doesn't mean nothing is going to come up and all that. But we went through a real storm last season, and this season it's more about now that the dust settles, where are we landing and how are we doing this together.

5. Ricky Wright:

   [ It's ] almost like history repeating itself, what goes around comes around, oK, we've entered the computer age, but we still have to have hands-on for most of the things we do and fishing is like hands-on. You've got to do it to know it -- to keep the culture strong is to keep what you do intact.