Meaning of running room | Babel Free

Definitions

Freedom; flexibility; options.

uncountable

Examples

“You know that letter-writing is a punishment for me, often a very harsh one. My pen knows not how to flow, and easily becomes petrified. I absolutely must have the stimulus of viva voce talk for my modest wits to have running room.”

“[quoting John Fossum:] "[…] Managers with small pay pool budgets still have running room to distribute performance bonusses."”

“[FOX news] would say […] [t]here has to be robust room for there to be rhetoric and hyperbole and overstatement and, yes, at times, misstatement, when we're talking about important issues of national and politcal concern, because that's what the First Amendment envisions. You have to have running room.”

CEFR level