Definition of handwashing in English:
handwashing
noun ˈhandwɒʃɪŋˈhandwäSHiNG
mass noun1The action or process of washing one's hands.
repeated handwashing may follow from obsessions about dirt or contamination
Example sentencesExamples
- Before the meal, towels and a pitcher of water are passed around for handwashing.
- Instead of using antibacterial soap, she recommends thorough hand-washing with plain soap and warm water.
- Experts suggest the safest, most effective germ fighter is frequent handwashing.
- Regulations specify that agricultural workers be provided with handwashing and toilet facilities in the fields.
- Handwashing is part of the etiquette of meals.
- Today everything is sanitized by hand-washing.
- Both of them have fevers, which means double hand-washing for me.
- A total of 150 volunteers have signed up to tour wards and talk to patients and staff about hand-washing, cleanliness, and MRSA cases.
- With supervision and precautions like hand-washing, contact between children and animals "is a good thing," the doctor said.
- Handwashing with soap and water is required when there is soiling.
2The action or process of washing something by hand rather than in a washing machine.
she oversaw handwashing of all costumes
Example sentencesExamples
- The current process allows for handwashing of certain dishes and for machine washing of other types of dishes.
- Prohibitions include a ban on the handwashing of vehicles.
- I don't mind the handwashing of the pot — I handwash my good copper pan.
- The job involves the handwashing of items that cannot be submerged and other tasks specified according to established policy and procedure.
- Minors may clean power-driven equipment if it involves hand-washing of individual parts of the machines and the machine is dismantled and reassembled by an adult.
- The deep basin allowed hand-washing of big, heavy-duty pots.
- I did some hand-washing of socks with normal soap today and they came out fine.
- In the handwashing of the garments, a mild soap or baby shampoo in lukewarm water should be used.
- There's going to be a change in the middle of the event that may require the hand-washing of a pashmina.
- Some of my survival tactics were extreme, especially the hand-washing of all our laundry.