Leeway

Quick meaning: Leeway is a noun meaning The drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction.

Meaning

The drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction.

More Meanings

1. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.
2. (British) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.

Example Sentences

I don't think we have a lot of leeway when it comes to proper formatting.

It was 1.6 [a.m.] when we got the road, and now we had 13 lost minutes to regain. But the "Condor" schedule has so much leeway that, with the diesel power, the loss was easily recouped.

"There's an hourly service to Nunthorpe and by the time you add in the Whitby trains as well there is hardly any leeway on the single line between Middlesbrough and Nunthorpe so it would involve quite significant infrastructure on the existing railway."

2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, →ISBN, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”, Within an expression that is not FP-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; […]

Word Forms

• leeways

Synonyms for leeway

Depending on context, synonyms include freedom, flexibility, latitude, margin, elbowroom, tolerance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include margin, tolerance, allowance, headroom, drift, maneuver.

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