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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

If the film feels episodic while tracking the detours of the four—some antic, others grave—that’s partly the point: Among other things, the movie is a brief for leisure as a source of pleasure and disclosure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The space is now set to be re-occupied by a national leisure brand.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Vroman’s catered to various clientele and communities, from traveling dignitaries to academics and leisure readers on vacation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Children now grow up spending much of their leisure time hearing music rather than performing or making it.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

“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

I counsel you therefore, my worthy friend, The logical leisures first to attend.

From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks

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 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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