laying on

1. 1.

   the act of contacting something with your hand

   “peonies can be blighted by the laying on of a finger”

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Questions about laying on

What does laying on mean?

laying on means "the act of contacting something with your hand".

Is laying on a common word?

laying on 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.