- 1(of work, etc.) involving using the hands or physical strength manual labour/jobs/skills manual and non-manual workers Wordfinderworkadministrative, freelance, managerial, manual, part-time, seasonal, skilled, temporary, voluntary, work See related entries: Describing jobs
- 2operated or controlled by hand rather than automatically or using electricity, etc. a manual gearbox My camera has manual and automatic functions. The company has now transferred all its manual records onto computer.
- 3connected with using the hands manual dexterity Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French manuel, from (and later assimilated to) Latin manualis, from manus ‘hand’.
Check pronunciation: manual
