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wiggle room en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncountable) The opportunity to make alternative decisions or to pursue other courses of action, especially any involving only minor changes to one's present situation or course.
    • "Nothing I know right now interests me in running," she said last week. But that leaves her some wiggle room, should things change. 2003 August 4, Terry McCarthy, Karen Tumulty, “Davis vs. Davis”, in Time:
    • There was no wiggle room here, no leeway, no margin for error. 1999, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Apollyon: The Destroyer is Unleashed, →ISBN, page 145:

Relateds

running room

Synonyms

maneuvering room · latitude · wobble room · scope · wriggle room · elbow room · flexibility · leeway · room for maneuver

Translations (11)

fi liikkumavara (opportunity to make alternative decisions) · ru пространство для маневра (opportunity to make alternative decisions) · hu mozgástér (opportunity to make alternative decisions) · it spazio di manovra (opportunity to make alternative decisions) · fi liikkumatila (opportunity to make alternative decisions) · pl furtka (opportunity to make alternative decisions) · fr marge de manœuvre (opportunity to make alternative decisions) · pt margem de manobra (opportunity to make alternative decisions) · ca marge de maniobra (opportunity to make alternative decisions) · de Spielraum (opportunity to make alternative decisions) · sv svängrum (opportunity to make alternative decisions)