"hand-wave" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hand-waves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-waving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-waved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-waved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "4": "hand-waved"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "handwave"
        }
      ],
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 49",
          "text": "Lastly, he hand-waves away the effects on industrial development by essentially stating that if industry hadn't been established next to the railways that had been in place for 100 years, they were unlikely to materialise - which is somewhat disingenuous given the rapidly changing shape of industry at the time, a notable proportion of which he had overseen in his previous role at ICI.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of handwave."
      ],
      "id": "en-hand-wave-en-verb--Q6GJn7x",
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        [
          "handwave",
          "handwave#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hand-wave"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hand-waves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-waving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-waved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-waved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hand-waves",
        "2": "hand-waving",
        "3": "hand-waved",
        "4": "hand-waved"
      },
      "expansion": "hand-wave (third-person singular simple present hand-waves, present participle hand-waving, simple past and past participle hand-waved)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "handwave"
        }
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        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 49",
          "text": "Lastly, he hand-waves away the effects on industrial development by essentially stating that if industry hadn't been established next to the railways that had been in place for 100 years, they were unlikely to materialise - which is somewhat disingenuous given the rapidly changing shape of industry at the time, a notable proportion of which he had overseen in his previous role at ICI.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of handwave."
      ],
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          "handwave",
          "handwave#English"
        ]
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  "word": "hand-wave"
}