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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


Words linked to "Leeway" :   tolerance, ship, allowance, airplane, variance, plane, drift, disagreement, divergence, aeroplane, discrepancy


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