arm's length

Because gig corporations insist they’re not employers, they face a conundrum: They don’t want the reputational harm caused by discrimination incidents, but they also want an arm’s-length relationship with their workforce, and taking steps to meaningfully train workers and actually ensure access for all makes them look more like employers.

“This is an arm’s-length business relationship,” Vartian said.

He is slightly farther than arm’s-length away and does not make contact with the man.

Biden said nothing about Netanyahu’s previous arm’s-length alliance with Hamas or the two-state solution.

The merger appeared to be as far from an arm’s-length transaction as human arms could allow.