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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
- They're footloose, and they'll go where they can get the best deal.
- 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
- Then footloose and fancy free, Terry travelled Australia for the next couple of years.
- The boomers are actually doing a lot more travelling than their footloose children.
- The first mistake he made was to try and do an unironic dance to Footloose - the first time someone has attempted to do so in 15 years.
- Rush out cheap, high-deductible policies, allaying some of the resentment that the mandate provokes among the young, healthy and footloose affluent. The GOP Can Outsmart ObamaCare
- His footloose and fancy-free lifestyle means he had no qualms about buying a home in New Zealand and opening a restaurant in the heart of Newmarket where competition is brisk.
- Imtech and PlantLab: high-tech CSR nurseries for energy-saving and sustainable 'footloose' production of flowers, plants, vegetables and fruit WebWire | Recent Headlines
- His footloose and fancy-free lifestyle means he had no qualms about buying a home in New Zealand and opening a restaurant in the heart of Newmarket where competition is brisk.
- Less security, more pressure and the constant fear that they would be thrown on the scrap heap because their business could not generate the hyper-profits that footloose global capital came to demand.