Meaning of room for maneuver | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of wiggle room.

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Examples

““He doesn’t have much room for maneuver,” said Sam Hill, a fixed-income fund manager at Threadneedle in London. “On the one hand he wants to loosen fiscal policy, but on the other hand he’s already in a massive hole, and if he does anything to make that worse the market will react very negatively.””

“To this end, Obama and Romney will need to lift the impediments to growth and job creation. Here again – in areas like housing, the labor market, credit intermediation, and infrastructure – there is less room for maneuver than most politicians would like us to believe.”

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