Words similar to slackening

Example sentences for: slackening

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In the modern West, progressive slackening of those rules came to permit naked hair for women, but only under visible control--not hidden, but very well-dressed in public.
Strikes by power workers because they received no wages and a general slackening of labor discipline in the industry caused a rise in accidents, the paper said.