"hands-off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hands-off",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hands-off",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hands-off (comparative more hands-off, superlative most hands-off)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "not involving or requiring direct control or intervention",
          "word": "hands off"
        }
      ],
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 24, Philip Haigh, “A shared vision to deliver East West Rail economic growth”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 30:",
          "text": "The NAO's [National Audit Office's] work highlights the tensions and differences between a government taking centralised control of a strategic project and a government that takes a hands-off approach to let local bodies decide the way forward for their areas.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of hands off: not involving or requiring direct control or intervention."
      ],
      "id": "en-hands-off-en-adj-bAMrYcIf",
      "links": [
        [
          "hands off",
          "hands off#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hands-off"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hands-off",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hands-off",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hands-off (comparative more hands-off, superlative most hands-off)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "not involving or requiring direct control or intervention",
          "word": "hands off"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 24, Philip Haigh, “A shared vision to deliver East West Rail economic growth”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 30:",
          "text": "The NAO's [National Audit Office's] work highlights the tensions and differences between a government taking centralised control of a strategic project and a government that takes a hands-off approach to let local bodies decide the way forward for their areas.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of hands off: not involving or requiring direct control or intervention."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hands off",
          "hands off#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hands-off"
}