wiggle room

noun

: leeway, latitude

a contract with wiggle room for further negotiations

Synonyms

• latitude
• leeway
• slack
• space

Examples of wiggle room in a Sentence

The salesman has some wiggle room to reduce the price of the car.

the language of the contract is vague and leaves too much wiggle room

Recent Examples on the Web

There’s little financial wiggle room, and the club’s recruitment structure is playing catch-up with teams at the top of the Premier League and in its increasingly competitive middle class. —Carl Anka, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025

Trump did give himself some wiggle room by challenging Arab states to come up with their own plan for postwar Gaza. —Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2025

Then, a pair of confirmation hearings featuring tense exchanges with several senators did little to quiet concerns about his path to confirmation, with little wiggle room among Republicans to advance his nomination out of committee. —Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2025

Colorado has a little more wiggle room with the salary cap this season, and potentially a lot more in the offseason. —Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for wiggle room

• anteroom
• assume
• backroom
• ballroom
• barroom
• bathroom
• bedroom
• boardroom
• bridegroom
• classroom
• cloakroom
• consume