Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
The word 'loose' is correct and usable in written English. It can be used as an adjective (e.g. "Her loose shirt hung off her shoulders") or as a verb (e.g. "She loosened her grip on the doorknob").
In 2013, the newly appointed head of Qeshm free trade zone spoke of "a vast loose financial mafia" that had been "looting the island's riches en masse".
Unlike many parts of the country where women have shed traditional regional attire, the women of Qeshm and Hormuz mostly wear the colourful bandari pants, loose at the top and tight at the bottom with vibrant embroidery.
But when he stands up we can see he's in some sort of loose straitjacket and he's losing the plot again.
Inspired in part by Magnum's recent Postcards From America series, in which a loose group of the renowned agency's photographers collaborated in various locations to report live from the ground – posting work online as they made it – the project was described to me variously as an adventure, an experiment and a laboratory.
Related: Empire: the outrageous black family drama that's changing the look of US TV There are other reasons to cut the show loose, first and foremost being simple expense.
Related: Dheepan review - Tamil Tiger loose in the urban jungle makes powerful thriller Yorgos Lanthimos's The Lobster got the jury prize: a movie about which I was agnostic: a brilliant absurdist comedy in its first half with some dazzling satire about modern society's reverence for relationships and coupledom.
He ended up ruling out more firmly than ever before the prospect of any kind of deal with the Scottish National party, not just a coalition but even a loose confidence-and-supply arrangement.
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