Crossword-Solution: LEEWAY 6 letters, 54 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Leeway n. The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her
course; drift.

We have 54 clues for the answer “LEEWAY”

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Margin of time: Colloq. 1 answer
Bargaining need 1 answer
Degree of freedom 1 answer
Drift to make up 1 answer
Elbow-room: Colloq. 1 answer
Extra margin. 1 answer
Freedom to maneuver 1 answer
MAKE up delay 1 answer
Margin of freedom or space 1 answer
Margin of safety 1 answer
Margin of time, space, etc.: Colloq. 1 answer
More time: Colloq. 1 answer
angle of drift nautical terms 1 answer
Wriggle room 1 answer
room for free movement within limits 1 answer
nautical terms angle of drift 1 answer
manoeuvring space 1 answer
Negotiator's need 1 answer
Room for manoeuvre 1 answer
Room for choice 1 answer
Room for action: Colloq. 1 answer
ROOM for movement 1 answer
Plenty of room. 1 answer
Operational freedom 1 answer
Space to maneuver 3 answers
Freedom to act 3 answers
Breathing room 3 answers
Elbow-room 4 answers
maneuvering room 4 answers
Room to maneuver 4 answers
ROOM to move 5 answers
ROOM for action 5 answers
Margin for error 5 answers
Wiggle room? 6 answers
A PERMISSIBLE DIFFERENCE 11 answers
Elbow room 21 answers
flexibility 38 answers
expectation 39 answers
Option 46 answers
Risk 47 answers
Margin 49 answers
Preference 50 answers
tolerance 50 answers
Selection ___ 52 answers
Play 55 answers
Latitude 56 answers
Alternative 56 answers
Vision 56 answers
DECISION ___ 59 answers
prospect 62 answers
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Sentences with LEEWAY (5)

The terms `tolerance' and {slop} are also used, though these usually indicate a one-sided leeway, such as a buffer that is made larger than necessary because one isn't sure exactly how large it needs to be, and it is better to waste a little space than to lose completely for not having enough.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
And across these shimmering estuaries of impulse his will, a lost and naked athlete, was painfully attempting to swim, but making much leeway and already almost resigned to being carried out to sea.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
But there can be no doubt the wind changed right round into the east, and that we were carried far down the Channel without any suspicion of the immense leeway we were making.
Tono-Bungay H.G. Wells 1996
GERMANY'S AERIAL DREADNOUGHT FLEET Although Germany, as compared with France, was relatively slow to recognise the immense possibilities of aircraft, particularly dirigibles, in the military sense, once the Zeppelin had received the well-wishes of the Emperor William, Teuton activities were so pronounced as to enable the leeway to be made up within a very short while.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick A. Talbot 1997
The seventh some sail was got on her, but she was an unwieldy vessel at the best, and we made little but leeway.
The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson 1997

Quotes with LEEWAY (3)

Terror is an artery. Running unfailing channels of bloodied thoroughfares by dint of the wilds beyond our knowing. Fluctuations and murmurs are audible within the splintered leeway of our preserve as a consequence of interstices modeled in such brutality. This appended artery offers no direction; idle and at times desultory. Bloodstained tracks and avenues guide casualties. Terror, like death, is not complicated, nor is it simple. It is but routine — natural. To call it other…
J.C. Whitfield
The wind comes across the plains not howling but singing. It's the difference between this wind and its big-city cousins: the full-throated wind of the plains has leeway to seek out the hidden registers of its voice. Where immigrant farmers planted windbreaks a hundred and fifty years ago. it keens in protest; where the young corn shoots up, it whispers as it passes, crossing field after field in its own time, following eastward trends but in no hurry to find open water. You …
John Darnielle Universal Harvester
I'm a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions.
Dalinar Kholin
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 74 times in crossword archives (1954–2024).