The phrase "about the leeway" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the flexibility or margin of error in a situation or decision-making process.
Example: "We need to talk about the leeway we have in the project timeline to ensure we meet our deadlines."
Alternatives: "regarding the flexibility" or "concerning the margin".
Correction: November 15 , 2003 Saturday A front-page article on Wednesday about the leeway that companies have in financing their pension funds referred incompletely to the response by CNF Inc., a freight and logistics company, to a lawsuit filed by a group of retirees who had worked for the company and for Consolidated Freightways, a division that was spun off.
At a massive 440 pages, Crow's file speaks volumes about the way in which the government views the American people as a whole--as potential threats to national security, not to mention what it says about the leeway given to the FBI to completely disregard the Fourth Amendment's protections against searches and seizures of our property and persons.
TC: Did you talk with investors in your newest fund about being given the leeway to invest in these things?
Teachers always have taught about controversial issues and have the leeway to push students to think critically about presidential policies.
(I worry that the "emergency" treatment is what allows Ben Bernanke the leeway to do nothing about unemployment).
Libertarians, so afraid of the government transparently regulating anything about our food, give Big Food all the leeway it needs to do so clandestinely.
The leeway granted to them amounts to about 0.2% of the £5.5bn budget for the NHS.
Foreign Policy reports:Then came the budget review, in which he was given the leeway to implement many ideas that he'd only talked about under Bush.
"We want to give them the leeway".
The leeway encouraged the home side to let rip.
It gives them the leeway to go around arresting people.
