hands-off

1. 1.

   not involving participation or intervention

   “a hands-off foreign policy”

   Similarpassive

Questions about hands-off

What does hands-off mean?

hands-off means "not involving participation or intervention".

How many syllables are in hands-off?

hands-off has 2 syllables and divides as hand-s-off under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is hands-off a common word?

hands-off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.