[U] the amount of freedom that you have to change sth or to do sth in the way you want to:
How much leeway should parents give their children?
IDIOMS
make up leeway (BrE) to get out of a bad position that you are in, especially because you have lost a lot of time:
He's unlikely to make up the leeway at this stage of the race.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for leeway is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is leeway a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, leeway is tagged as noun.
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