If you give Tom any leeway, he'll probably just walk all over you.
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Leeway
/[ˈliːˌweɪ]/
Synonyms for "leeway" (96 found)
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12 entriesTranslations
57 translations across 18 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 余地 noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Czech
4 entries- manévrovací prostor noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- odklon od kurzu noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
- skluz noun (adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process)
- volnost noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Dutch
4 entries- afdrift noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
- afdrijving noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
- speelruimte noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- speling noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Finnish
3 entries- liikkumavara noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- pelivara noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- sorto noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
French
3 entries- dérive noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
- latitude noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- marge noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
German
4 entries- Abdrift noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
- Freiraum noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- Rückstand noun (adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process)
- Spielraum noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Hebrew
1 entries- טְרִידַת רוּחַ noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
Indonesian
2 entries- keleluasaan noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- kelonggaran noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Irish
2 entries- saoirse noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- solúbthacht noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Italian
3 entries- deriva noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
- margine di azione noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- scarroccio noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
Japanese
4 entries- 余地 noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- 余裕 noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- 偏流量 noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
- 風圧量 noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- slingringsmonn noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Portuguese
2 entries- deriva noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
- margem noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Russian
2 entries- дрейф noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
- относи́тельная свобо́да де́йствий noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- manevarski prostor noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- sloboda kretanja noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- zanošenje noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
Slovak
3 entries- rezerva noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- tolerancia noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- voľnosť noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Spanish
4 entries- deriva noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
- espacio noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- flexibilidad noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- largueza noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Swedish
3 entries- avdrift noun (drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction)
- spelrum noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
- utrymme noun (degree or amount of freedom or flexibility)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
We may have just enough leeway in the negotiations to get the project approved.
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You're being too strict. Give your employees some leeway.
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You've been given a lot of leeway so far.
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