leavewayn.

1870 Railway News 3 Dec. 650/2 He had to make the best terms he could with his neighbours, and, therefore, as their leave was a necessary condition of the undertaking, the roads so made were called ‘leaveways’. These leaveways were numerous in the neighbourhood of the Northumberland collieries 200 years ago.

1890 Theatre 3 May 428/1 It gives leaveway for the imagination to continue the dream which lay in the piece.

1912 Jrnl. Adv. Therapeutics 30 103 Let the patient choose the hour which is most convenient, but it must always be the same hour day after day, not even a leave-way of fifteen minutes may be tolerated.

1934 Jrnl. Bar Assoc. Kansas Aug. 93 When he fixed the minimum with leaveway for abstracts requiring more work the offerer said he could get them done for $7.50.

2007 S. E. Granville Cry of Nurse 68 Set up your rules and don't deviate from them. You can give them some leaveway, but always put your limit up.

1913 T. E. Lawrence Let. 29 Sept. (1938) 157 They half suggested a royalty of a pound a head a day, as leave-way to dig.

1958 J. M. Brewer Dog Ghosts 56 Lissen heah, if'n dat red toro yo' boss-man own be's so fine, huccome you don' gib us leaveway to see 'im?

1958 L. Sparks in J. M. Brewer Dog Ghosts & Word of Brazos 63 When she fuss staa't to gibin' dis young man leaveway to come to see her, she kinda careful 'bout hidin' what she doin'.