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elbowroom
[ el-boh-room, -room ]
/ ˈɛl boʊˌrum, -ˌrʊm /
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noun
ample room; space in which to move freely.
scope; opportunity: a job with elbowroom.
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Words nearby elbowroom
elbow, elbow-bender, elbow bump, elbow catch, elbow grease, elbowroom, Elbrus, Elburz Mountains, El Cajon, El Campo, El Capitan
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How to use elbowroom in a sentence
A State of unbounded plains and hills and Badlands—elbowroom.
North Dakota|VariousFor the newspaper fellows they rigged up elbowroom accommodations of bench and table against the base of the judges' kiosk.
Those Times And These|Irvin S. CobbTellsons wanted not elbowroom, Tellsons wanted no light, Tellsons wanted no embellishment.
An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises|George Lyman Kittredge
British Dictionary definitions for elbowroom
elbowroom
/ (ˈɛlbəʊˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) /
noun
sufficient scope to move or function
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Other Idioms and Phrases with elbowroom
elbow room
Enough space to move about, as in Two hundred on the stage? There won't be any elbow room. This term alludes to having enough room to extend one's elbows. [Late 1500s]
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