leeway

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• [ˈliːˌweɪ]
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• CMU ARPABET: L IY1 W EY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From lee (“side away from the wind”) + way.

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: odklon od kurzu — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Dutch: afdrift — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Dutch: afdrijving — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Finnish: sorto — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• French: dérive — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• German: Abdrift — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Hebrew: טְרִידַת רוּחַ (tridat ruakh) — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Italian: scarroccio — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Italian: deriva — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Japanese: 風圧量 (fūatsuryō) — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Japanese: 偏流量 (henryūryō) — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Portuguese: deriva — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Russian: дрейф (drejf) — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Serbo-Croatian: zanošenje — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Spanish: deriva — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Swedish: avdrift — drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction
• Chinese Mandarin: 余地 (yúdì) — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Czech: volnost — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Czech: manévrovací prostor — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Dutch: speelruimte — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Dutch: speling — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Finnish: pelivara — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Finnish: liikkumavara — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• French: latitude — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• French: marge — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• German: Spielraum — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• German: Freiraum — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Indonesian: kelonggaran — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Indonesian: keleluasaan — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Irish: saoirse — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Irish: solúbthacht — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Italian: margine di azione — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Japanese: 余地 (yochi) — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Japanese: 余裕 (yoyū) — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Norwegian Bokmål: slingringsmonn — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Portuguese: margem — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Russian: относи́тельная свобо́да де́йствий (otnosítelʹnaja svobóda déjstvij) — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Serbo-Croatian: manevarski prostor — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Serbo-Croatian: sloboda kretanja — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Slovak: voľnosť — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Slovak: tolerancia — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Slovak: rezerva — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Spanish: libertad — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Spanish: espacio — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Spanish: margen — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Spanish: tolerancia — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Spanish: flexibilidad — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Spanish: latitud — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Spanish: manga ancha — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Spanish: margen de maniobra — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Spanish: largueza — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Swedish: utrymme — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Swedish: spelrum — degree or amount of freedom or flexibility
• Czech: zpoždění — adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process
• Czech: skluz — adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process
• German: Versäumte — adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process
• German: Rückstand — adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process