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HAND-PICK
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they hand-pick ... he / she / it hand-picks
Past simple: hand-picked
Past participle: hand-picked
-ing form: hand-picking
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pick personally and very carefully
Example:
the director hand-picked his new team
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "hand-pick" is one way to...):
pick (select carefully from a group)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
