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elbowroom

[el-boh-room, -room] / ˈɛl boʊˌrum, -ˌrʊm /








NOUN
sea room
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While winning elbowroom at the men's bar, she has lost her seat in the subway.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is ever less elbowroom for the individual; submissive cooperation with increasingly remote and mysterious forces has become the order of the day.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other hand, the Bolshoi Swan Lake provided the soloists with more elbowroom to stitch figures of gaudy and often moving brilliance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cast a Giant Shadow, another exercise in movie biography, may be filed as a case of mistaken identity: any resemblance to persons living or dead is sacrificed to make elbowroom for Hero Kirk Douglas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finding himself with elbowroom for the first time, he pushed through, swung the door open and switched on the lights.

From Something New by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)