headroom
Example Sentences
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She expressed a desire for more wriggle room in the spreadsheets against her self-imposed fiscal rules – so-called "headroom".
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She said: "I was clear that I wanted to build up that resilience and that is why I took those decisions to get that headroom up to £21.7bn."
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He added the government had increased the headroom for the Treasury to meet the fiscal rules, which would creates "certainty and stability for business".
From BBC
Sterling rallied and gilt yields fell initially after the announcement as investors welcomed the increased fiscal headroom and the fact the budget contained no major surprises.
Gilt yields fell following the budget statement and news that the fiscal headroom had doubled to 22 billion pounds from nine billion pounds at the previous statement in March.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
