Meaning of double-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Involving both hands.
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2. Designed to be used with two hands.
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3. Involving two people.
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4. Serving two purposes or involving two approaches.
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5. deceitful; deceptive
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Examples

“With this double-handed frontal horizontal grip the child is held in secure prone position so that its legs can move freely.”

“Usually 2–3.5 metres in length, double-handed spinning rods are ideal for tackling slightly larger fish, including tailor, salmon (hahawai), trevally, flathead, snapper, barramundi, and Murray cod.”

“The double-handed conversation had started to resemble a vaudeville act.”

“A “double-handed” strategy is called for, where the authorities show a readiness to intervene in the short run to support the economy should it flag again, while at the same time providing economic agents with a sense of long-term direction and governance to re-establish confidence.”

“Duchamp played a double-handed game, on one hand a public strategy on the other a clandestine commitment.”

“Ibrahim, who entertains suspicions of this double-handed policy, compromises the Prince by every means in his power.”

“While the idea of a “special post” reflects, as we have seen earlier, the double-handed way in which female professional labor was capitalized upon by the state, it also shows how the colonial bureaucracy used the vector of work to normalize a certain congruity between gender and citizenship.”

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