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Leeway   /lˈiwˌeɪ/   Listen
Leeway

noun
1.
(of a ship or plane) sideways drift.
2.
A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.  Synonyms: allowance, margin, tolerance.





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"Leeway" Quotes from Famous Books



... this, it'll just about finish me," he continued glumly. "These people are not going to allow me an inch leeway. I'll have to deliver on that contract to the last stipulated splinter before they'll pay over a dollar. If I don't have a million feet for 'em three weeks from to-day, it's all off, and maybe a suit for breach of contract besides. That's the sort they are. If they can ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... the old whaler on some yarns of the early days, but as the boat was nearing the ship he decided to wait for an opportunity when there would be more time and the raconteur would have full leeway for ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... landslides. At first they were terribly discouraging to the workers. They practically put the French engineers, who started the Canal, out of the running, and even when the United States engineers started figuring they didn't allow enough leeway for ...
— The Moving Picture Boys at Panama - Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal • Victor Appleton
... a most partic'lar fine officer he is, as every body says. Well, sir, he's with the ladies; while his namesake has gone back to the table, and has put luff upon luff, to fetch up leeway." ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... the business street of a village, by a width of roadway of thirty feet. Under most other circumstances twenty feet of roadway will be ample. This will allow of the moving of three vehicles side by side, and will give a leeway of six feet between two ...
— Village Improvements and Farm Villages • George E. Waring


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