runway
/ˈrʌnweɪ/
the amount of time a company can operate before running out of money or resources
runway in a sentence
“With this funding round, we have 18 months of runway to hit profitability.”
Origin of runway
From aviation — length of runway available for takeoff; adopted by startup community
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