leeway
lee way
- n (of a ship or plane) sideways drift
- n a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- In African-American society, there is a lot of leeway as far as body type.
- Known as the 10(j) rule, a special exemption to the Endangered Species Act allows government agencies extra leeway in controlling "experimental populations" like the gray wolf; in .
- The study is accompanied by an article featuring criticism of a World Health Organization (WHO) draft report that, as currently written, gives homeopathy some leeway, as well as a .