all hands

Speech parts

1. all hands - Noun

2. all hands - Adjective

Meaning

all hands pl (plural only)

All of the passengers and crew of a ship.

all-hands (not comparable)

Requiring the involvement of everyone available.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

all-hands

Synonyms

all whole crew anyone everyone everybody all and sundry every man jack each and every whole world all people all men all personnel entire crew entire staff
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Antonyms

none nobody joblessness no one no man underemployment
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Related terms

all hands

Examples

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. Van Jones

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity. Buckminster Fuller

We hear talk of sanctified selfishness, of the adorable expansion of one race across the others, of noble hatreds and glorious conquests, and we see these ideals trying to take shape on all hands. Henri Barbusse

The mechanism of reaching equilibrium by means of a rising cost of living, which is vainly pursued by a rising level of wages, will be described in the next chapter. But it is admitted on all hands that this is the worst possible solution. John Maynard Keynes

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck. Ann Landers

In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Close letter words and terms

All Hallows' Day All Hallows' Eve all hammer, no nail all hands on deck all hands to the deck all hands to the pump