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headroom

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Motor vehicles, Roads
head·room /ˈhed-rʊm, -ruːm/ noun [uncountable]  1. TTCthe amount of space above your head, especially when you are in a car 〔尤指车辆中乘客头顶以上的〕头顶空间2. TTR British English the amount of space above a vehicle when it is under a bridge 〔车顶与桥底之间的〕净空(高度)
Examples from the Corpus
headroomOnce fully open there is 25m headroom above the river's 30m wide navigation channel.Legroom is generous, and headroom reasonably good.Quantities of leg and headroom are generous, rearward seat travel in particular, and all-round vision is terrific.The floor was often dug out by as much as three feet to increase headroom.This gives the tape more headroom for high frequencies.Paradoxically, my own company has always given plenty of headroom, but not everyone perceived it thus.But once they're there, once you've given them headroom, they seem pretty determined to stick around.
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headroom
headroom /ˈhed-rʊm, -ruːm/ noun [uncountable]
1. the amount of space above your head, especially when you are in a car
2. British English the amount of space above a vehicle when it is under a bridge


head·roomBrE /ˈhedruːm/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhedruːm/ 🔊BrE /ˈhedrʊm/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhedrʊm/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] the amount of space between the top of a vehicle and an object it drives under (机动车车顶与其上方桥梁等之间的)净空the amount of space between the top of your head and the roof of a vehicle (机动车内的)头上空间There's a lot of headroom for such a small car. 这么小的一辆汽车的头上空间蛮大的。🔊🔊