0 present participle of loosen
2 to make something such as your hair or a piece of clothing less tight:
He loosened his tie.
The bootstrap allows inferences to be made directly from the actual data, while loosening the parametric assumptions that may not hold in a particular case.
However, there are concerns that any loosening of the rules could lead to a drop in participation by low-wage workers.
As clearly put, tightening the belts and wages of workers while loosening the market forces is a recipe for mismatch and discontent.
The key issue was the loosening of the rigid boundary between architectural researchers and practitioners.
We did not identify the bung loosening or the evisceration as risk factors for carcass contamination.
In some cases, the recovery of the communicated concept from the linguistically-encoded concept will involve both processes of narrowing and loosening.
Put another way, major supply-side reforms including the 'loosening' of labour markets would be induced by a political authority lacking political legitimacy.
Minimizing soil loosening during crop establishment will also contribute to a significant reduction in soil erosion in tropical smallholder cropping systems.
