adjective

• 1Involving direct involvement or intervention.

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  • ‘increasingly, CEOs are taking a hands-on approach to information security’

  1. 1.1Involving or offering active participation rather than theory.
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     • ‘hands-on practice to gain experience’
     Synonyms

     empirical, hands-on, pragmatic, real, actual, active, applied, experiential, experimental, non-theoretical, in the field