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leisure

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


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First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth said hospitality, accommodation and leisure venues would receive the permanent cut in rates from April 2027.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Mr. White, an emeritus professor of history at the University of Sydney, studied antebellum newspapers, legal documents, travelogues and paintings to glean information about black New Yorkers’ occupations, housing and leisure activities.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Renoir is celebrated for his light-dappled canvases capturing 19th-century European leisure, high society and timeless figurative studies.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

This has weighed on leisure and hospitality employment in US border communities, found Philip Luck of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Almost as soon as she took notice of his sense of peace and leisure, his eyes focused on something in the distance.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

“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

Washington had his slaves, his coat of arms, and the occupations and leisures and pleasures, so far as the frontier would permit, of an English gentleman.

From The French in the Heart of America by John Finley

The story, a little drama, was, with the tale concerning Nebuchadnezzar, that of Daniel, and other novels quite as strange, evolved long later in the wide leisures of Jerusalem.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus

Among the many that mine eyes have seen,   Not one whose flame my heart so much as warmed,   Or my affection put to th' smallest teen,   Or any of my leisures ever charmed.

From A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare




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