Usually means: Nearby, within easy reach.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. close at hand: Merriam-Webster
  2. close at hand: Vocabulary.com
  3. close-at-hand: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. close-at-hand, close at hand: Dictionary.com
  5. Close At Hand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. close at hand: FreeDictionary.org
  7. close at hand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. close at hand: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. close at hand: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. close at hand: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. close at hand: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (close at hand)

▸ adverb:  Near spatially or temporally.

Similar:
imminent, impending, close, at hand, near, nearhand, up close, nearby, about, thereabouts, more...

Opposite:
distant, remote, faraway, removed, unreachable

Phrases:
burner close at hand, more...

Adjectives:
near, hard, around the corner, nearish, nigh, handy, about, by, close to the wind, bain, approaching

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Similar:
imminent, impending, close, at hand, near, nearhand, up close, nearby, about, thereabouts, more...

Opposite:
distant, remote, faraway, removed, unreachable

Phrases:
burner close at hand, more...

Adjectives:
near, hard, around the corner, nearish, nigh, handy, about, by, close to the wind, bain, approaching



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