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":

   progress

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1. State Senator Tom Davis:

   I made some headway yesterday in making a bad bill better, but it's nowhere near the point where I can support it, and I recognize to a significant degree that I'm breaking with my Senate Republicans brethren.

2. Jeremy Carlson:

   It's certainly possible for the Chinese auto industry to make significant headway with government backing, but there's still a lot going into developing that technology, making sure it's safe, and that means a certain number of miles driven.

3. Larry Kudlow:

   We are making headway in a lot of areas. That includes enforcement, that includes IP theft, that includes forced technology transfers, ownership, cyberspace, commodities and all the rest of it, those are of course in the middle of the negotiations that are ongoing, but we've come further and farther than ever before.

4. Margaret Chan:

   If we are to make any headway in halting the rise in diabetes, we need to rethink our daily lives: to eat healthily, be physically active, and avoid excessive weight gain, even in the poorest settings, governments must ensure that people are able to make these healthy choices and that health systems are able to diagnose and treat people with diabetes.

5. Elvis Picardo:

   Once the Greece situation gets resolved, favorably or unfavorably, you're going to have a bit of a news vacuum, and it's really difficult to see the TSX make sustainable headway.