Synonym of the word LEEWAY

n. The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
n. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom.
n. (Britain) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.

n. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting.
n. Acknowledgment.
n. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty,…
n. a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
n. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
n. (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries.
n. A child's allowance; pocket money.
n. (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing…
n. (obsolete) approval; approbation.
n. (obsolete) license; indulgence.
v. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

n. The degree to which two or more things diverge.
n. (obsolete) disagreement; difference.
n. The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

n. (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
n. The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
n. A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
n. The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention;…
n. (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
n. (handiwork) A tool.
n. A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
n. (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an…
n. (nautical) Movement.
n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
v. (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
v. (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
v. (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
v. (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
v. (transitive) To drive into heaps.
v. (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
v. (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence…
v. (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
v. To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner…

n. (typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.
n. The edge or border of any flat surface.
n. (figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from of a set or group.
n. A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
n. A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
n. (finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
n. (finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into…
v. To add a margin to.

n. (uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
n. (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions…
n. (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with…
n. (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in…
n. (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.

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