Possible Clues:

• Prepare to take in washing?
• Free, in a way
• Detach, in a certain way
• Release to float, as a currency price
• Loosen a latch, maybe
• Remove from a set level, as a currency
• Remove (clothes from a washing line)
• Cease to maintain fixed relationship between currencies
• Remove, as a currency from a fixed rate
• Let off the hook by organisation reporting old Irish writer