Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
looseleaf \loose"leaf`\, loose-leaf \loose"-leaf`\(l[=oo]s"l[=e]f`), adj. having rings that open and close permitting insertion and removal of pages; -- of notebooks and binders and the paper used in them; as, a looseleaf notebook; looseleaf paper.
Syn: loose-leaf.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Having pages that are not attached and are designed to be removed.
Usage examples of "loose-leaf".
Loose-leaf sheaves were piled high on any flat surface that would hold them, or posted chockablock on bulletin boards.
The entire subcellar was packed with stacks and stacks of neatly piled papers, dossiers and card files and loose-leaf folders, the unread reports of the Uranist Intelligence Agency over the last seven months.
Aarn was already at work on the calculating machine, and with a great loose-leaf notebook filled with fine-lettered data.
It was a little loose-leaf notebook with a black leather cover, about the size of an index card, maybe a little bigger, but not much more than that.
Nowadays, when there are so many government snoops and stool-pigeons asking questions everywhere, mere hawkers of potato-peelers, loose-leaf encyclopaedias, and patent jamjar rings think that they may adopt the same insulting tone.
Margie said, pulling open a loose-leaf folder she had been holding.
It was a loose-leaf binder, about ten centimeters across by twenty-five high, filled with punched paper pages, probably five hundred or more.
During the early weeks he had found a thick loose-leaf binder in the back of one of the desk drawers.
The title given is the one written on the cover of the loose-leaf binder in which these notes were kept prior to their appearance here.
Antonya Corando's loose-leaf binder contained six pages of meticulous notes about the rise of the Greek Empire.
Ramsey Machado opened the loose-leaf binder that lay on the table in front of him, but he did not even glance at it.
She went to the bookshelf to get the loose-leaf binder that her grandmother had used.
Her mother was sitting cross-legged in jeans and sweatshirt, in the middle of a welter of Styrofoam peanuts and paperwork, going through a loose-leaf binder.
At her side, a metal cart held a camera, a magnifying glass, a laptop, a loose-leaf binder, and several books.
ONE OF the better things to happen to me when I was in school was that my father bought me a loose-leaf binder that had a full color map of the world printed around the outside cover, and a map of Poland on the inside front.