hands-on

hands-on
/handz"on", -awn"/, adj.
1. characterized by or involved in active personal participation in an activity; individual and direct: a workshop to give children hands-on experience with computers.
2. requiring manual operation, control, adjustment, or the like; not automatic or computerized: The hands-on telephone switchboard is almost obsolete.
[1965-70; by analogy with HANDS-OFF]

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