leeway
Other forms: leeways
Leeway is a term used to describe the amount of freedom available. If you know you have a paper due on Monday, you might ask your teachers if there is any leeway––could you, say, bring it first thing Tuesday morning?
Leeway is a nautical term, referring to a vessel's drift to the lee, (nautical for "downwind"). Now, it is very useful in describing those gray areas in life––for example, everyone has a ten-minute leeway when meeting friends where you're not officially late, even if you're not actually on time.
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a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limitstype of:disagreement, discrepancy, divergence, variancea difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
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(of a ship or plane) sideways drifttype of:driftthe gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
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Vocabulary lists containing leeway
In Nic Stone's unflinching exploration of racism, high school student Justyce McAllister writes letters to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in order to process the violence and prejudice he encounters in his community.
When best friends Lucely and Syd accidentally summon evil spirits to their town, they must figure out a way to reverse the spell and defeat the spirits.
In this memoir, Brierley, who was adopted by an Australian couple, describes his search for his family of origin in India.