breathing space

Questions about breathing space

What does breathing space mean?

breathing space means "a short respite". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for breathing space?

Close synonyms include breath, breather, breathing place, breathing spell, breathing time. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breathing space a common word?

breathing space is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.