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US
/ˈɫɛʒɝ, ˈɫiʒɝ/
]
[ UK /lˈɛʒɐ/ ]
[ UK /lˈɛʒɐ/ ]
NOUN
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time available for ease and relaxation
his job left him little leisure -
freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity
he lacked the leisure for golf
How To Use leisure In A Sentence
- The model nature of Windsor involved imitation, as of the Tudor style, to make a statement with a lot of leisure about it.
- As for leisure activities, a few old weights and a sledgehammer is the gym. CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2009
- A leisurely breakfast - even the motel manager was moaning about the way the Italians "hogged" the muffins this morning and drank cups of milk instead of putting it on their bran flakes! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- We did get a digital box so we could record programs and watch them at our leisure and not get tied to a schedule for tv programs but we end up recording so much that it always seems like I spend more time trying to watch tv and clear space in my digi box than write. On Efficiency, Or How To Get Everything Done As A Multi-Tasking Writer - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
- Judges don't have to shoot from the hip. They have the leisure to think, to decide.
- But government does not have the freedom to make proposals in haste and repent at leisure. Times, Sunday Times
- The poor litigant will wait for the somnolescent process and leisurely pronouncement and the wealthy litigant will have his case speedily terminated. The Hindu - Front Page
- The coming of television brought about a revolution in people's leisure activities.
- Unlike other porpoises and dolphins, belugas are quite leisurely.
- We then walked through a natural arch in the rock, which might have pleased us by its novelty, had the stones, which incumbered our feet, given us leisure to consider it. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland