"hand-sitter" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hand-sitters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hand-sitter (plural hand-sitters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, Newsweek, volume 71, numbers 10–18, page 13",
          "text": "A key factor in Nelson Rockefeller's noncandidacy decision was the failure of the Republican governors—and leading liberal Republicans—to come out for him publicly after New Hampshire. There were personal telephone calls urging him to run, but that was all … Among the biggest hand-sitters was a former Republican governor […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who sits on their hands; one who dawdles or remains idle when action is needed."
      ],
      "id": "en-hand-sitter-en-noun-HchG7Xsy",
      "links": [
        [
          "sits on their hands",
          "sit on one's hands"
        ],
        [
          "dawdle",
          "dawdle"
        ],
        [
          "idle",
          "idle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A person who sits on their hands; one who dawdles or remains idle when action is needed."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "idler"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Indiana Review, volume 13, page 98",
          "text": "They were such a responsive audience, for one thing, so unlike the academic hand-sitters he was used to, and they'd turned out in such large numbers, despite a heavy downpour, filling the basement of the First Presbyterian Church to capacity, even standing in the back and along the walls.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An unenthusiastic or unresponsive member of an audience."
      ],
      "id": "en-hand-sitter-en-noun-gK0dQoWo",
      "links": [
        [
          "unenthusiastic",
          "unenthusiastic"
        ],
        [
          "unresponsive",
          "unresponsive"
        ],
        [
          "audience",
          "audience"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) An unenthusiastic or unresponsive member of an audience."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hand-sitter"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hand-sitters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hand-sitter (plural hand-sitters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, Newsweek, volume 71, numbers 10–18, page 13",
          "text": "A key factor in Nelson Rockefeller's noncandidacy decision was the failure of the Republican governors—and leading liberal Republicans—to come out for him publicly after New Hampshire. There were personal telephone calls urging him to run, but that was all … Among the biggest hand-sitters was a former Republican governor […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who sits on their hands; one who dawdles or remains idle when action is needed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sits on their hands",
          "sit on one's hands"
        ],
        [
          "dawdle",
          "dawdle"
        ],
        [
          "idle",
          "idle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A person who sits on their hands; one who dawdles or remains idle when action is needed."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "idler"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Indiana Review, volume 13, page 98",
          "text": "They were such a responsive audience, for one thing, so unlike the academic hand-sitters he was used to, and they'd turned out in such large numbers, despite a heavy downpour, filling the basement of the First Presbyterian Church to capacity, even standing in the back and along the walls.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An unenthusiastic or unresponsive member of an audience."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unenthusiastic",
          "unenthusiastic"
        ],
        [
          "unresponsive",
          "unresponsive"
        ],
        [
          "audience",
          "audience"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) An unenthusiastic or unresponsive member of an audience."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hand-sitter"
}