Definition of "hands-off" []

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

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• "The old guard, the hands-off crowd, started giving way to the younger senators, and to a new idea that while these agencies are essential to our security and must operate in secret, they must also operate under the law and make themselves accountable to the legislative branch and the courts."
• "Everyone starts laughing at the thought of a hands-off healer being an air healer."
• "The same cautious hands-off approach applied to Yemen, whose role as a new base for al-Qaeda was highlighted after a failed attempt to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day, 2009."