0 used to describe someone who has been carefully chosen for a particular job or activity:
The 74 year-old has ceded day-to-day control of the company to a hand picked team of managers.
be handpicked for sth/to do sth The 35-year-old Australian citizen was hand picked for the post.
be handpicked by sb Many boards were hand-picked by the very executives they were supposed to oversee.
a hand-picked successor
Once concentrated by standard gravimetric and magnetic techniques, grains for analysis were hand-picked under alcohol on the basis of clarity, lack of inclusions and integrity.
He had still, however, to resort to a secret and almost certainly fraudulent count by a hand-picked committee to secure victory.
Because of their geographical fragmentation and tight rule by hand-picked elites, they could hardly be ideal bases for guerrilla warfare.
The pupil voice, it seems, can only be represented by a select and hand-picked few.
The cast is hand-picked to create the necessary confusion and controversy.
All zircon grains were hand-picked under a binocular microscope to ensure selection of only the clearest grains without cracks and that contained no, or the fewest possible, inclusions.
Many international commissions are awarded from a hand-picked short list of contenders, of which a perfunctory representative from the region is generally included among the out-of-towners.
All three hand-picked chairs were judged as more assertive and dynamic (through not necessarily more conservative)11 and less likely than those they displaced to pursue committeedefined over party-defined priorities.
