[
US
/ˈfʊtˌɫus/
]
[ UK /fˈʊtluːs/ ]
[ UK /fˈʊtluːs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
free to go or do as one pleases
Americans have always been a footloose people always moving on
a footloose young man eager to see the big city
How To Use footloose In A Sentence
- ‘A high proportion of this capital is footloose, ready to take off if there is a more promising investment at hand, or if the value of US investment looks like contracting,’ he wrote.
- Secondly, high technology industries are footloose - products such as microchips are easy to transport, and thrive in a clean environment.
- Legend by then had fructified Chapman (1774-1845), a footloose (and footsore) son of a Bunker Hill veteran, into a mythic, apple-spreading American nomad of the lonesome frontier. A Pro-Growth Strategy
- Thanks to our footloose times, all their children have gone abroad; and now, though elderly themselves, they have to continue the role of caring; this time, it is babysitting the grandchildren!
- Bert was a footloose, unemployed actor.
- Yes, well, a Shaughraun is an Irish rural character, a vagabond, a footloose but loyal trickster.
- He added that the high dependence on imported goods, was the result of the government attracting footloose industries in Indonesia.
- In appearance, the RV is not much different from what a pair of footloose retirees might drive to Yellowstone but for the words ‘Asthma Van’ emblazoned emphatically in black on each side.
- It could have been that my subconscious-which was kind of footloose at the time-just seized on the available props out of habit Later, though, I had cause to wonder. Sign of the Unicorn
- People that are single tend to be more footloose.