the amount of freedom that you have to change something or to do something in the way you want to 自由活动的空间
Idioms
make up leeway
- (British English)
to get out of a bad position that you are in, especially because you have lost a lot of time 摆脱逆境；（尤指）弥补损失的时间 He’s unlikely to make up the leeway at this stage of the race. 在比赛的这个阶段，他不太可能弥补余地。