Usually means: Distance maintaining personal or professional boundaries.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word ARM'S LENGTH:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. arm's-length, arm's length: Merriam-Webster
  2. arm's-length: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arm's-length, arm's-length: Collins English Dictionary
  4. arm's length: Vocabulary.com
  5. arm's-length, arm's length, arms-length: Wordnik
  6. arm's-length, arm's length: Wiktionary
  7. arm's-length: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. arm's-length, arm's length, arms-length, arms length: Dictionary.com
  9. Arm's length: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. arm's length: Rhymezone
  11. arms length: FreeDictionary.org
  12. arm's length: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. arm's-length, arm's length: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. arm's length: Law.com Dictionary
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  4. Arm's Length: INSOLVENCY
  5. arm's length: Legal dictionary

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  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (arm's length)

▸ noun:  A distance approximately equal to the length of a human's arm.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A position not suggesting or inviting intimacy.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A condition of independence and parity for parties to a transaction.
▸ adjective:  (literally) Barely within reach.
▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) Distant, detached.
▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) Independent, but related.

Phrases:
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