way leave

A form of wayleave — A right of way granted by a landowner.

Meanings

nounway leave (countable and uncountable, plural way leaves)

plural way leaves

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of wayleave.

    [...] the building of the base of the cursed Inner Circle. This was to be built beneath property considerably more desirable and expensive even than those in the District's suburbs, and the costs of way leaves, of compensation, underpinning and outright purchases would prove crippling.

    2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 61
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APA

way leave. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/way%20leave

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“way leave.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/way%20leave. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “way leave,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/way%20leave.

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