leeway englanniksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-englanti)

The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom.
(British) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in make up leeway.

I don't think we have a lot of leeway when it comes to proper formatting.
Within an expression that is not -strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; [...]
Quand l’objectif est en passe d’être raté, cela n’incite pas à s’en rapprocher et ne procure pas de latitude en cas d’imprévus.

Monikko