What (who) is hand-pick - definition
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Pick (disambiguation); PICK
hand-pick
also handpick
(hand-picks, hand-picking, hand-picked)
If someone is hand-picked, they are very carefully chosen by someone in authority for a particular purpose or a particular job.
He was hand-picked for this job by the Admiral...
Sokagakkai was able to hand-pick his successor.
VERB: be V-ed, V n
hand-pick
¦ verb [usu. as adjective hand-picked] select carefully.
Séraphine Pick
NEW ZEALAND PAINTER (1964— )
Seraphine Pick
Séraphine Pick (born 23 May 1964, in Kawakawa, New Zealand) is a New Zealand painter. Pick has exhibited frequently at New Zealand public art galleries; a major survey of her work was organised and toured by the Christchurch Art Gallery in 2009–10.
Pronunciation examples for hand-pick
1. You could never hand-pick the people
Navy SEALâs 10 Fail Safe Principles _ Brent Gleeson _ Talks at Google
2. Or you try and hand pick something,
Rigby + More _ Talks at Google
3. the incumbent president would hand-pick his successor.
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4. or did you kind of hand-pick who you wanted?
Morgan Freeman & Lori McCreary _ Madam Secretary _ Talks at Google
5. We hand-pick that peach out of the what
Recipes and Stories from the Masumoto Family Farm _ Marcy Masumoto _ Talks Google
Examples of use of hand-pick
1. That act of renunciation left her free to shape government policy and hand–pick ministers.
2. The Florida resident helped hand–pick the plaintiffs involved and is paying the legal fees himself.
3. The ailing company needed a new image and Page would be allowed to hand–pick his dancers and his repertory.
4. Mr Thaksin apparently expected to hand–pick a successor, as a new parliament was convened within weeks.
5. Using his medical background as cover, his brief was allegedly to hand–pick other Muslim doctors to form a sleeper cell for future terror attacks.