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leisure

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


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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

Similarly, leisure lounges often include one drink and one L.A.-inspired food item but may not have a direct view of competition.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

How do you want to spend your leisure time and weekends?

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

"We've got some incredible public leisure facilities, just not enough of them," he said.

From BBC Aug. 11, 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

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

You would not hear me, At many leisures I propos'd.

From Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare




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