push-button

push-button
/poosh"but'n/, adj.
1. operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
2. using complex, automated weapons, as long-range missiles, that require only simple initial steps to put them into action: push-button warfare.
[1875-80, Amer.]

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