leisure

[Lei·sure]

Unemployed; as, leisure hours.

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Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.

Noun
freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity; "he lacked the leisure for golf"

Noun
time available for ease and relaxation; "his job left him little leisure"


n.
Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.

n.
Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.

a.
Unemployed; as, leisure hours.


Leisure

Lei"sure n. [OE. leisere, leiser, OF.leisir, F. loisir, orig., permission, fr. L. licere to be permitted. See License.] 1. Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.
The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
2. Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
He sighed, and had no leisure more to say.
At leisure. (a) Free from occupation; not busy. (b) In a leisurely manner; at a convenient time.

Leisure

Lei"sure, a. Unemployed; as, leisure hours.

Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.

Unemployed; as, leisure hours.

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Usage Examples

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

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