"breathing space" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breathing spaces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "breathing space (countable and uncountable, plural breathing spaces)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1842, Thomas Babbington Macaulay, Horatius, stanza 45",
          "text": "He reeled, and on Herminius\nHe leaned one breathing-space;\nThen, like a wild cat mad with wounds,\nSprang right at Astur's face.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sufficient space or a span of time in which to recover one's breath."
      ],
      "id": "en-breathing_space-en-noun-Dyj3gDhl",
      "links": [
        [
          "space",
          "space"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "recover",
          "recover"
        ],
        [
          "breath",
          "breath"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "breathing room"
        },
        {
          "word": "breathing spell"
        },
        {
          "word": "breathing while"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 8 7",
          "word": "breathing-space"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rest",
          "orig": "en:Rest",
          "parents": [
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            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rest, pause, or respite."
      ],
      "id": "en-breathing_space-en-noun-X-vpOt1M",
      "links": [
        [
          "rest",
          "rest"
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        [
          "pause",
          "pause"
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          "respite",
          "respite"
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      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't fret, in our division you get a lot of breathing space.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 58",
          "text": "By this time the difference between first and third class accommodation had become nominal, and was measured in \"breathing space\" during peak hours rather than in quality.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph",
          "text": "Martin Kelly then finished with power to provide some breathing space before Craig Dawson’s scored his fourth goal in five England Under-21 appearances with a looping header.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Enough distance so that one can feel unfettered."
      ],
      "id": "en-breathing_space-en-noun-MFKt4N60",
      "links": [
        [
          "distance",
          "distance"
        ],
        [
          "unfettered",
          "unfettered"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "breathing space"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breathing spaces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1842, Thomas Babbington Macaulay, Horatius, stanza 45",
          "text": "He reeled, and on Herminius\nHe leaned one breathing-space;\nThen, like a wild cat mad with wounds,\nSprang right at Astur's face.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sufficient space or a span of time in which to recover one's breath."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "space",
          "space"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "recover",
          "recover"
        ],
        [
          "breath",
          "breath"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "breathing room"
        },
        {
          "word": "breathing spell"
        },
        {
          "word": "breathing while"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
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        "A rest, pause, or respite."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "pause",
          "pause"
        ],
        [
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          "respite"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't fret, in our division you get a lot of breathing space.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 58",
          "text": "By this time the difference between first and third class accommodation had become nominal, and was measured in \"breathing space\" during peak hours rather than in quality.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph",
          "text": "Martin Kelly then finished with power to provide some breathing space before Craig Dawson’s scored his fourth goal in five England Under-21 appearances with a looping header.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Enough distance so that one can feel unfettered."
      ],
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        [
          "distance",
          "distance"
        ],
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          "unfettered",
          "unfettered"
        ]
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "breathing-space"
    }
  ],
  "word": "breathing space"
}