hand pick
1hand-pick — ► VERB ▪ select carefully …
2hand-pick — verb pick personally and very carefully the director hand picked his new team • Hypernyms: ↑pick • Verb Frames: Somebody s something Somebody s somebody * * * handˈ pick transitive verb …
3hand-pick — verb Hand pick is used with these nouns as the object: ↑successor …
4hand-pick — hand picks, hand picking, hand picked also handpick VERB If someone is hand picked, they are very carefully chosen by someone in authority for a particular purpose or a particular job. [be V ed] He was hand picked for this job by the Admiral...… …
5hand-pick — /hænd ˈpɪk / (say hand pik) verb (t) 1. to pick (fruit, etc.) by hand. 2. to select carefully. –hand picked, adjective …
6hand-pick — {v.}, {informal} To choose very carefully. * /This debating team should win because its members are all hand picked./ * /The political bosses hand picked a man for mayor who would agree with them./ …
7hand-pick — {v.}, {informal} To choose very carefully. * /This debating team should win because its members are all hand picked./ * /The political bosses hand picked a man for mayor who would agree with them./ …
8hand-pick — v informal To choose very carefully. This debating team should win because its members are all hand picked. The political bosses hand picked a man for mayor who would agree with them …
9hand-pick — verb [usu. as adjective hand picked] select carefully …
10hand·pick — …
