room for maneuver

• room to maneuver, maneuvering room

room for maneuver (uncountable)

1. Synonym of wiggle room
   • 2009 April 21, Julia Werdigier, “Little Room to Maneuver on Budget for Britain”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     “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.”

   • 2012 August 2, Mohamed el-Erian, “Winner of US election will have limited economic options”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

• “room for maneuver”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “room for maneuver”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.