- 1(of work, etc.) involving using the hands or physical strength manual labor/jobs/skills manual and non-manual workers
- 2operated or controlled by hand rather than automatically or using electricity, etc. The car has a manual shift. 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
adverb manually operatedSee manual in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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