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Some freedom allowed for fish picked up on route
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leeway
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction. 2 A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom. 3 (context British English) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in make up ...
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Leeway is a crossover thrash band formed in Astoria, New York , USA in 1984 by guitarist A.J. Novello and vocalist Eddie Sutton under the name The Unruled. They played alongside groups such as Crumbsuckers , Prong , Ludichrist , Bad Brains , and Sick of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, sideways drift of a ship caused by wind, from lee + way (n.). Figurative meaning "extra space" is by 1835.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (of a ship or plane) sideways drift a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits [syn: allowance , margin , tolerance ]
Usage examples of leeway.
Rationing can do something about that, but not enough to give us a lot of leeway, and we have no idea when someone may find us.
I found someone, not with much force, but it gave me leeway to start fighting back.
No question, he was allowing us more leeway with a case against a woman than he would tolerate in a case against a man.
Moy studied me for a moment, obviously trying to decide how much leeway he could afford to give me.
Sometimes, depending on the judge, you can get a bit of leeway on these matters, especially in a case as serious as this one.
Fortunately, they could not make the extra yard or two of leeway he had.
Except for the possible leeway implied here, no reference was made to the Communists.
He had leeway of only three days for stops at Kunming, at Y-force headquarters at Paoshan, at Myitkyina and at Ramgarh to say goodbye privately to old companions.
In the past neither he nor she had ever been overly concerned about time, a ten or fifteen minutes leeway meant on time.
The network could not create life, but it had a tremendous amount of leeway with the alteration of it.
He was generally thought to be a competent if unimaginative governor, exercising what leeway a Hierchon had within the Mercatorial system with caution, sense and, on occasion, even a degree of compassion.
Even then, however, the details of the Fourierist blueprint for the future had seemed to him rather ridiculous, and he had agreed with his friend Valerian Maikov that the phalanstery hardly left any leeway for the freedom of the individual.
She must not only be at Sain Scarp by midwinter, but she must leave some leeway for return to Thendara before the winter storms closed the passes.
Mowett, and explained the nature of leeway, the loss of windward distance in wearing, the impossibility of tacking in a very great wind, the inevitability of leeward drift in the case of being embayed with a full gale blowing dead on short, and the impervious horror of this situation.
It seems to me the implants have done pretty well with granting reasonable leeway, as you say, to the parolees in the house arrest program.