HAVE WAY meaning: Allowing someone to proceed first - OneLook

Usually means: Allowing someone to proceed first.

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Definitions from Wiktionary (have way)

▸ verb: (nautical) Of a vessel: to be under way; to be moving or making progress.

Similar:

make way, gather way, move along, fare, warp, go along, move off, make, wend, forge, more...

Opposite:

halfway, midpoint, center

Phrases:

have a way with, have it your way, have a way, have come a long way, have head screwed on the right way, more...

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Similar:

make way, gather way, move along, fare, warp, go along, move off, make, wend, forge, more...

Opposite:

halfway, midpoint, center

Phrases:

have a way with, have it your way, have a way, have come a long way, have head screwed on the right way, have it your own way, have one's way with, have ones way with, have own way, have one's way, more...

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