way leave

English

Noun

way leave (plural way leaves)

1. Alternative form of wayleave.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 61:

     [...] 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.

References

• “way leave”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.