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Meaning of elbow room in English
(Definition of elbow room from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
elbow room | American Dictionary
elbow room
noun [ U ]
Examples of elbow room
elbow room
Elbow room: the varieties of free will worth wanting.
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For example, the second slot of a binary onset has significantly less distributional elbow room than its sister position.
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It will give them more elbow room and greater chances for the re-adaptation and modernisation of the industry than would otherwise be the case.
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There should be elbow room in order to permit the making of satisfactory arrangements as regards the transfer of services.
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They have elbow room and elasticity for children in primary and secondary schools.
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Perhaps we were too tough and did not give the railways enough financial elbow room.
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They may scion be forgotten in the struggle for power, for elbow room.
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There is no elbow room in budgets of this kind and these budgets on which many millions of our people live.
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It would not lengthen the election, but it would give more elbow room for registration officers and candidates than they will have under these proposals.
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Their claim is for elbow room by which they hope to attain economic self-sufficiency.
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Therefore, this discretionary power of "may" release, which is intended to allow elbow room over time and circumstances—and nothing else—is the best we can do.
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Of course, they need more elbow room in the balance of payments.
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They say that they have done it because the economy must have elbow room, because we must have mobility of labour.
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One of the greatest difficulties about the final agreement on the bases was how much elbow room did we require.
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Further, judges have no elbow room within which to exercise their private discretion.
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serbestçe hareket edilebilecek alan/yer, kıpırdayacak yer…
(de) la place…
armslag…
volný prostor…
albuerum, handlefrihed…
ruangan…
เนื้อที่กว้างขวางทำให้เคลื่อนที่ได้สะดวก…
khoảng trống để một người có thể cựa quậy thoải mái…
przestrzeń, pole manewru, wolna przestrzeń…
svängrum…
cukup ruang…
die Bewegungsfreiheit…
alburom, plass til å røre seg…
простір для руху…
свободное пространство…
