What's the difference between headroom and room?

Headroom


Definition:

  • (n.) See Headway, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The government will be borrowing heavily over the next few years, so it’s a shame that they couldn’t use more of the fiscal headroom to encourage investment through measures such as raising the annual investment allowance, which could deliver productivity increases sooner.” Autumn Statement 2016: Most gains from post-2015 changes go to richest half of UK - live Read more Digital entrepreneur and investor Martin Leuw, who was CEO of IRIS Software for 10 years and now runs business accelerator Growth4Good , said: “ I can see how a reduction in corporation tax makes the UK an attractive place for inward investment.
  • (2) He added that the cost cutting undertaken in the past year by ITV provided a "financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change", with tranformation now the priority, rather than more savings – and increased investment likely in some areas.
  • (3) The US government runs out of borrowing headroom in under nine days time, and investors are now getting more edgy about what happens at one minute to midnight on October 17th .
  • (4) With 10-year gilt yields at a record low 1.5%, the markets are sending a clear signal that there is substantially more headroom for counter-cyclical fiscal stimulus.
  • (5) That legislation, or a version of it, could work its way into a broad agreement between the sides, although Republicans have rejected the idea of adding so much headroom.
  • (6) The company said it had headroom of about £1bn to make acquisitions.
  • (7) That has given us a financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change.
  • (8) Hunt said the commonwealth had already purchased 1,165 gigalitres of water, leaving 335 gigalitres of “headroom” before the new limit would be reached, but the government wanted to focus on improving farm water efficiency.
  • (9) It’s then up to the party or any government to look at that headroom and spending available, and look at where and how to spend it.” According to the Department for Work and Pensions , postponing an increase in the state retirement age from 66 to 67 would cost £6bn over eight years in Scotland and £74bn for the UK as a whole.
  • (10) Jill Rutter, the programme director of the Institute for Government, said: “To have a chancellor who is able to resist the temptation to spend every pound of fiscal headroom instantly is, in current circumstances given future uncertainties, a welcome development.
  • (11) True, in parts they could stretch up to 3ft 11in (119cm) – which is just about enough headroom for an Ewok.
  • (12) There is therefore more than enough headroom without our announced savings to cover the net cost of the higher education package,” he said.
  • (13) #gdndatamgmt September 10, 2014 Roger Tatoud (@B3EXECS) "data protectionism" from system managers and system providers is also a major obstacle to data collection, sharing and use #gdndatamgmt September 10, 2014 Chris King (@NorthernWrites) How do we create more headroom for change at board level?
  • (14) "That has given us a financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change.
  • (15) But don't expect to sit up in bed – the headroom doesn't allow for such luxuries.
  • (16) Thomas Cook feels it needs more headroom to be prudent," she said.
  • (17) There is headroom for further lending, Carney replies, but not infinite room, as there are dangers in offering such high loan-to-value loans.
  • (18) Buhlmann, speaking to MediaGuardian.co.uk, said that the £200m-plus deal did not mark a break in that strategy and that the company had plenty of headroom for further acquistions.
  • (19) Labor has revealed that its higher education policy would cost the budget nearly $14bn over the next decade, arguing there was “more than enough headroom” within its already announced savings measures to offset the spending.
  • (20) "What's strange about the period under scrutiny is they reported a massive profit warning and I know the trading team were encouraged to clear the decks to give the new chief executive some headroom, so they were being prudent and conservative in their guidance.

Room


Definition:

  • (n.) Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.
  • (n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
  • (n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
  • (n.) Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.
  • (n.) Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.
  • (v. i.) To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.
  • (a.) Spacious; roomy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
  • (2) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
  • (3) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (4) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (5) Physicians working in the emergency room gained 14.7% during that time of day the PNP was present.
  • (6) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
  • (7) Of the other patients, four panicked with sodium lactate, none with 5% CO2, and one with room air hyperventilation.
  • (8) Photolysis of the photosystem I particles induces a progressive depletion of phylloquinone, however, photochemistry as assayed at room temperature by the photooxidation of P-700 is unaffected.
  • (9) The measurements were carried out in rooms of houses in Southern Germany with radon activity concentrations in the range of 150-900 Bqm-3.
  • (10) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (11) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
  • (12) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
  • (13) By using an interactive computer program to assess knowledge of the American Cancer Society cancer screening guidelines in a group of 306 family physicians, we found that knowledge of this subject continues to leave room for improvement.
  • (14) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (15) It closes from 1 May to 1 Nov. • Doubles from $105 room only, +52 755 553 2802, edenmex.com 9.
  • (16) I can't think of a single room in the building that isn't used."
  • (17) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
  • (18) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
  • (19) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
  • (20) George Osborne’s eighth budget is unlikely to be a radical affair , as the state of the public finances and the upcoming EU referendum limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.