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leisure

[lee-zher, lezh-er] / ˈli ʒər, ˈlɛʒ ər /


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Occasionally, a leisure driver bunches up the group until they pull over at the next turnout to let the faster drivers pass.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

"Culture and leisure consistently rank as the second most important reason for visiting the district in our on-street surveys."

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

But leisure and hospitality employers cut 40,000 workers, while retailers shed more than 19,000 employees.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The lack of new labor supply could be contributing to a shortage of labor, at least in some industries such as leisure and hospitality.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

Only in 1958, when he had stepped from behind the bar of another Zebra Room, would my grandfather have the leisure to remember his youthful dreams of roulette wheels.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“In those days, there weren’t video games or these other leisures kids have nowadays,” Gerard said.

From Washington Times Jul. 1, 2016

To meet the change, Davis sold 100 theaters, wisely followed his customers into new leisures.

From Time Magazine Archive

The generous indefiniteness, which treats an hour more or less as of no account, is in keeping with that sense of endless leisures which it is one chief merit of the poem to suggest.

From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell

At Ferrara, in the wide leisures of her brother’s court, Tasso, Stundenlang, as Gœthe wrote, sat with her.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

She took no serious interest except in the happiness, the imponderous riches, the innocent and perfect beauties, the sweet leisures, the glories and the arts of peace.

From The Wrack of the Storm by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos




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