what does arm's length mean
The noun ARM'S LENGTH has 1 sense: 1  1. a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy. 2  Meaning: 3  A distance sufficient to exclude intimacy. 4  Classified under: 5  Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects. 6  Hypernyms (arm's length is a kind of...): 7  distance; length (size of the gap between two places)