hands-on work

collocation in English

meaningsofhands-onandwork

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hands-on
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌhændˈzɒn/us
/ˌhændˈzɑːn/
Someone with a hands-on way of doing things becomes closely involved in managing and organizing things and in ...
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work
noun
uk
/wɜːk/us
/wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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(Definition ofhands-onandworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And in the end nothing competes with the experience of fieldwork andhands-onwork, whether in excavation or among the dusty shelves of museums.
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There has perhaps been too much training and not enoughhands-onwork.
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Those involved inhands-onworksee further ahead than the rest of us.
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Practice—hands-onwork—is being driven out because that is the expensive bit.
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They receive initial training and are then givenhands-onworkto do and learn as they go along.
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I pay tribute to it and other organisations for their briefings and, more generally, for theirhands-onworkin widening employment opportunities for people with such problems.
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There was alsohands-onworkwith electrical instruments and in shop practices.
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These involve several exams, the passing of which, added with two years of relevanthands-onworkexperience, will merit certification.
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Typical apprenticeship programs emphasizehands-onworkunder the supervision of journeymen, but also include a substantial component of classroom training and testing.
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In addition to teaching practical design solutions, the apprentices hadhands-onworkwith various building trades.
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He eschewed the film school route, doing otherhands-onworkfor commercial film productions.
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Typical apprenticeship programs consists of 80-90%hands-onworkunder the supervision of journeymen and 10-20% classroom training.
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Programs in the past have includedhands-onworkexperience, tours, and general information on papermaking.
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Many students prefer the vocational system because they can learn more fromhands-onwork, though others find it difficult to maintain their motivation because of the constant evaluation and coursework.
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The other part of the course happens at night withhands-onworkimaging the asteroids they are to study with telescopes made available by the program.
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Steele is also an avid gardener whosehands-onworkwith plants fuels her work in flower painting.
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Many of these represent author'shands-onwork.
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Schenck's students spent most afternoons in the forest doinghands-onworkand directly applying the theories they had learned in the classroom.
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The practicum involves a weekly seminar,hands-onworkwith start-up businesses, and interaction with local and national experts on a variety of topics important to the education of budding entrepreneurs.
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