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leisure

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


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All sectors show that switching jobs results in higher pay, except for leisure and hospitality.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Reduced pandemic ship orders coupled with a rebound in leisure travel and stepped-up presales of onboard packages led to a windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Residents in Whelford, a nearby village, have been evacuated and taken to a leisure centre while investigations continue.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Residents were evacuated to a nearby leisure centre, police said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Norwood returned to Bermuda with his family, becoming a successful planter and devoting his leisure hours to his first love, trigonometry.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

“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

The long leisures, the introspective habits, the vita contemplativa so conspicuous in the old Catholic discipline, grow very rare.

From The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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




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