What is another word for all hands?

Pronunciation: [ˈɔːl hˈandz] (IPA)

All hands is a nautical term that refers to the entire crew of a ship. It is often used to indicate that everyone on board is needed to work together to achieve a particular goal or task. There are several synonyms for the phrase "all hands", including "everyone", "everybody", "the whole crew", and "all personnel". Other phrases with similar meanings include "all members", "entire team", "full complement", and "total staff". The term is also used outside of the maritime industry and is commonly used in corporate and military settings to indicate that all employees or soldiers are needed to participate in a specific project or mission.

What are the hypernyms for All hands?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with All hands

  • 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
  • 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
  • With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.
    Wyndham Lewis
  • Empaths did not come into this world to be victims, we came to be warriors. Be brave. Stay strong. We need all hands on deck.
    Anthon St Maarten

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