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What is the noun for leeward?

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leeway
  1. The drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction.
  2. A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom.
  3. (Britain) An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Up here in the still vastness there is no margin for error, no wiggle room, no leeway between getting it right and dying.”
      “And they're pushing for greater leeway in launching cyberattacks against computers illegally transmitting copyrighted files.”
      “It happened that the author was also given some leeway with respect to the creative details.”
leewardness
  1. Quality of being leeward.
leeways
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