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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



... everything on this, sir. I'm no Rank Private in his first fracas. I deserve to be given some leeway." ...
— Mercenary • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... just about what I'd figured. I've been fishin' in this 'hole' for something like forty years, off and on, and I've found out that these here sunfish get through breakfast at exactly eighteen minutes past nine. I always allow about ten minutes' leeway in case one or two of 'em might have been out late the night before or something,—but as a general thing they're pretty dog-goned prompt for breakfast. Specially in August. Even a fish is lazy in August. Look at that fish-worm. By gosh, it's BOILED! That shows ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... must be done now, when immunity from actual conflict gives us a merciful leeway. More than ever before, we shall face united business fronts. Therefore, co-operation among competitors is necessary to ...
— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson
... demanded supplies. They were sent us—government-supplied. We have found one booby-trap included. In retaliation for this attempted assassination, we are going to lob chemical-explosive missiles into the principal government buildings of this city. We give three minutes' leeway for clerks and other persons to get clear of those buildings. The ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... of the young folks who may yet have some leeway to make up, I shall indulge myself a little by quoting it: and, since I am on that tack, follow it by another which presents Stevenson in his favourite guise of quizzing his own characters, if not for his own advantage ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp


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