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The definition of hands-off is a policy of not intervening.

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An example of someone who would be described as hands-off is a manager who sits back and lets his staff do their own thing.

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See hands-off in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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designating or of a policy, attitude, etc. of not interfering or intervening

See hands-off in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
Characterized by nonintervention: a hands-off foreign policy.

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