Usually means: Margin for freedom or error.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. leeway: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. leeway: Merriam-Webster
  3. leeway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. leeway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. leeway: Collins English Dictionary
  6. leeway: Vocabulary.com
  7. Leeway, leeway: Wordnik
  8. leeway: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. leeway: Wiktionary
  10. leeway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. leeway: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. leeway: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Leeway, leeway: Dictionary.com
  14. leeway: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. LeeWay, Leeway (band), Leeway: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Leeway: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. leeway: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. leeway: Rhymezone
  19. Leeway: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. leeway: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. leeway: FreeDictionary.org
  22. leeway: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. leeway: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. leeway: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. leeway: Legal dictionary

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  1. leeway: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leeway: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leeway: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leeway: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. leeway: Chapters in the Sky
  3. LEEWAY: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Leeway: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (leeway)

▸ noun:  The drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction.
▸ noun:  A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.
▸ noun:  (British) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.

Similar:
margin, allowance, tolerance, drifting, loose, slack, free rein, license, variable, plain sailing, more...

Opposite:
constrict, restrict, limit

Types:
latitude, wiggle room, margin, buffer, cushion, elbow room, more...

Phrases:
leeway space, make up the leeway, make up leeway, made up leeway, made up the leeway, more...

Adjectives:
more, considerable, little, greater, enough, certain, sufficient, wide, substantial, ample, broad



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Similar:
margin, allowance, tolerance, drifting, loose, slack, free rein, license, variable, plain sailing, more...

Opposite:
constrict, restrict, limit

Types:
latitude, wiggle room, margin, buffer, cushion, elbow room, more...

Phrases:
leeway space, make up the leeway, make up leeway, made up leeway, made up the leeway, makes up leeway, makes up the leeway, making up leeway, making up the leeway, Joe Leeway, give leeway, give too much leeway, more...

Adjectives:
more, considerable, little, greater, enough, certain, sufficient, wide, substantial, ample, broad



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