Definitions for headways

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headways head·way

Spelling: [hed-wey]

IPA: /ˈhɛdˌweɪ/

Headways is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in headways (aadehswy).

Definitions for headways

noun

1. forward movement; progress in a forward direction:
2. progress in general:
3. rate of progress:
4. the time interval or distance between two vehicles, as automobiles, ships, or railroad or subway cars, traveling in the same direction over the same route.
5. headroom (def 2).

Idioms

1. make headway, to proceed forward; advance; progress.

Origin of headways

First recorded in 1700-10; (a)head + way¹

Examples for headways

Even Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has made some headway here.

Even as U.S./NATO forces make some headway here and there, little comes in behind them to solidify gains.

With the people of the country of her adoption, whether Jews or Moors, she made no headway.

We've both been struggling with unemployment and underemployment, and we're just now starting to make some headway.

The headway of the skiff was slow, but my efforts were not silent.

Would we—make any—headway, sir, with the schooner's—light machinery?

McCain and Graham also had a long meeting with Burns Tuesday, but McCain declined to say whether Burns was making any headway.

He was performing the task during a royal visit to headway, a charity that helps people with brain injuries.

Over on Iverak the Serbians had succeeded in making some headway.

For a time he had seemed to make no headway against his hill-born appetite.