Synonyms for headway
ˈhɛdˌweɪhead·way

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1. headroom, headway, clearancenoun

   vertical space available to allow easy passage under something

   Synonyms:
   head, headroom, dynamic headroom, clearance

2. headway, headnoun

   forward movement

   "the ship made little headway against the gale"

   Synonyms:
   promontory, oral sex, headland, point, straits, clearance, capitulum, psyche, school principal, question, read/write head, forefront, pass, header, drumhead, mind, chief, headspring, head, nous, fountainhead, head teacher, caput, headroom, principal, heading, brain, head word, foreland, top dog

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1. List of paraphrases for "headway":

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1. Orrin Hatch:

   We're making headway, i have high hopes that we will get there. I chatted with the president (Barack Obama) today. He said it's very important to him and he wants me to get it through.

2. Lee Un-chul:

   If self-evaluated, our score is only in the fifties, compared with that in the thirties last year ... we are making headway as we can correct even the government if it does wrong.

3. Elvis Picardo:

   With three of the major groups facing headwinds, it's hard to see the TSX making much headway in 2015.

4. Mohammed Javad Zarif:

   Sanctions are a liability, you need to get rid of them if you want a solution, i think we have made good headway in resolving even that.

5. Josie Znidarsic:

   I don’t think anybody would argue that fact that we know inflammation in the body, which comes from a lot of different sources, is the basis for a lot of chronic health problems, so by controlling that, we would expect to see increased life expectancy … but if we’re not changing those things and just taking ibuprofen, I don’t know if we’re really going to make any headway in that, i feel like there are probably a lot of factors that we could change without medicating with risk.