hand-pick
verb [with object] (usually as adjective hand-picked)
Select carefully with a particular purpose in mind: a small hand-picked group of MPs...
- Ironically it was Shier's own new hand-picked team of executives, imported at great expense, who voted him out!
- She will spend a week relaxing in the Californian sunshine with a select team of stylists hand-picked from across the globe.
- Did it all hinge on the creation of an all-powerful executive council, hand-picked by Fontaine to circumvent the chiefs?
Synonyms
specially chosen, specially selected, invited, screened, vetted;
choice, elite, select
Rhymes
- landing speed
- landing stage
- landing strip
- landlady
- land law
- Land League
- landless
- landlessness
- landline
- landlocked
- landlord
- landlordism
- landlubber
- landman
- land march
- landmark
- land mass
- landmine
- land mullet
- landnam
- Land of Enchantment
- land office
- Land of Opportunity
- land of promise
- Land of the Covenant