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wiggle room

wiggle room noun: 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.

Noun

wiggle room (uncountable)

  1. (informal) 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.
    • 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
    • "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

Synonyms of wiggle room

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Questions about wiggle room

What does wiggle room mean?
Wiggle room means 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.
What part of speech is wiggle room?
Wiggle room is a noun.

Words near wiggle room in the dictionary

  1. wiggishness
  2. wiggle
  3. wiggle dress
  4. wiggle dresses
  5. wiggle out of
  6. wiggle room
  7. wiggle seat
  8. wiggle seats
  9. wiggle worm
  10. wiggle worms
  11. wiggled

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