0 used to describe someone who has been carefully chosen for a particular job or activity: --
a hand-picked successor
be handpicked by sb Many boards were hand-picked by the very executives they were supposed to oversee.
be handpicked for sth/to do sth The 35-year-old Australian citizen was hand picked for the post.
The 74 year-old has ceded day-to-day control of the company to a hand picked team of managers.
The fact is that it was not a hand-picked committee.
Or are they to be people hand-picked from the scientific world?
Support for the scheme has been hand-picked and not elective from the political groups.
Against that formidable adversary is a group of hand-picked individuals who are not always known for their interest in defence.
They are hand-picked fighters—members of his family, and village tribesmen from his local towns.
We hand-picked the variables to include in our simulations, based on our adult knowledge and intuitions concerning what constitute relevant properties signalling the functional- lexical distinction.
The project there began when seven hand-picked centres were used to train workers for the next 50 centres which, in turn, trained more personnel for another 203 centres.
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.
