LOOSE END

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loose end mean? 

• LOOSE END (noun)
  The noun LOOSE END has 1 sense:

1. work that is left incomplete

  Familiarity information: LOOSE END used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOSE END (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work that is left incomplete

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

loose end; unfinished business

Hypernyms ("loose end" is a kind of...):

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

 Context examples 

I had a line about my waist and followed obediently after the sea-cook, who held the loose end of the rope, now in his free hand, now between his powerful teeth.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Up he clambered a few feet, drew up the loose end after him, unslung his belt, held on with knee and with elbow while he spliced the long, tough leathern belt to the end of the cord: then lowering himself as far as he could go, he swung backwards and forwards until his hand reached the crack, when he left the rope and clung to the face of the cliff.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)