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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free time and its activities |
| Synonyms: | chance, convenience, ease, freedom, holiday, idle hours, intermission, leave of absence, liberty, one's own sweet time, opportunity, pause, quiet, range, recess, recreation, relaxation, repose, requiescence, respite, rest, retirement, sabbatical, scope, spare moments, spare time, time, time off, unemployment, vacant hour, vacation |
| Antonyms: | employment, work |
| Main Entry: | oblige |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do a favor or kindness |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, aid, assist, avail, bend over backward, benefit, come around, contribute, convenience, don't make waves, favor, fill the bill, fit in, go fifty-fifty, gratify, grin and bear it, help, indulge, make a deal, make room, meet halfway, please, profit, put oneself out, roll with it, serve, swim with the tide, take it, toe the mark |
| Antonyms: | be mean |
| Main Entry: | occasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance |
| Synonyms: | break*, convenience, demand, excuse, incident, instant, moment, need, occurrence, opening, opportunity, possibility, season, shot*, show, time, use |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opportunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lucky chance; favorable circumstances |
| Synonyms: | befalling, break*, connection, contingency, convenience, cut*, event, excuse, fair shake, fighting chance, fitness, fling*, fortuity, freedom, go*, good fortune, good luck, happening, hope, hour, iron in the fire, juncture, leisure, liberty, moment, occasion, one's move, one's say, one's turn, opening, pass, prayer*, probability, relief, room, run, scope, shot*, show, space, spell, squeak, stab, the hunt, the running, time, turn, whack |
| Antonyms: | bad luck, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suitableness, appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | accordance, advisability, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, ethicality, expedience, fitness, harmony, justice, legitimacy, meetness, morality, order, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rectitude, respectability, rightness, seemliness, suitability |
| Antonyms: | immorality, impropriety, inappropriateness, unsuitableness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | use |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
| Synonyms: | account, adoption, advantage, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, capitalization, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exercising, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, mobilization, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, relevance, service, serviceability, treatment, usability, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear, wont, worth |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| Main Entry: | utensil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tool, usually for eating |
| Synonyms: | apparatus, appliance, contrivance, convenience, device, equipment, fork, gadget, implement, instrument, knife, silverware, spoon, tableware, ware |
| Main Entry: | utility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serviceableness |
| Synonyms: | account, adequacy, advantage, advantageousness, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, convenience, efficacy, efficiency, expediency, favor, fitness, function, point, practicality, productiveness, profit, relevance, service, serviceability, use, usefulness |
| Main Entry: | accessibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approachability |
| Synonyms: | convenience, openness, receptiveness |
| Antonyms: | unapproachability |
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