leisure
IPA: ɫˈɛʒɝ
noun
- Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
- Free time, time free from work or duties.
- Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
- A surname.
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Examples of "leisure" in Sentences
- Bejing - BAY-jing (there is no sounds such as found in 'leisure' in Chinese)
- To sin in haste and repent at leisure is not a privilege available to the public servant.
- -- 'And surely,' he continues, 'if the purpose be in good earnest, _not to write at leisure that which men may read at leisure_' -- note it -- that which men may read at leisure -- 'but really to
- After his retirement from business, Franklin enjoyed seven years of what he called leisure, but they were years of study and application; years of happiness and sweet content, but years of aspiration and an earnest looking into the future.
- In that light, the performance of France (and of the European Union in general) does not look so bad: A much higher rate of growth of productivity than the U.S., and, as one might expect given that leisure is a normal good, the allocation of part of that increase to increased income, and part to increased leisure.
- On all sides they trip along, buoyed up by animal spirits, and seemingly so void of care that often, when I am walking on the Boulevards, it occurs to me that they alone understand the full import of the term leisure; and they trifle their time away with such an air of contentment, I know not how to wish them wiser at the expense of gayety.
- On all sides they trip along, buoyed up by animal spirits, and seemingly so void of care, that often, when I am walking on the _Boulevards_, it occurs to me, that they alone understand the full import of the term leisure; and they trifle their time away with such an air of contentment, I know not how to wish them wiser at the expence of their gaiety.
- To make hippocras: Take a gallon of claret of white wine, and put therein four ounces of ginger, an ounce and a half of nutmegs, of cloves one quarter, of sugar four pound; let all this stand together in a pot at least twelve hours, then take it, and put it into a clean bag made for the purpose, so that the wine may come with good leisure from the spices.
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