Hands-off
[handz-awf, -of] /ˈhændzˈɔf, -ˈɒf/
adjective
1.
characterized by nonintervention or noninterference:
the new hands-off foreign policy.
2.
remote or unfriendly; estranging:
a truculent, hands-off manner toward strangers.
adjective
1.
(of a machine, device, etc) without need of manual operation
2.
denoting a policy, etc, of deliberate noninvolvement: a hands-off strategy towards industry
also hands off, as an adjective, by 1895. As a command to desist, by 1810.
adjective
Noninterfering; passive: the president’s hands-off policy (1902+)
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