The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leisure \Lei"sure\ (l[=e]"zh[-u]r; 135), n. [OE. leisere, leiser, OF. leisir, F. loisir, orig., permission, fr. L. licere to be permitted. See License.]
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Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.
The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
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Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease. He sighed, and had no leisure more to say. --Dryden. At leisure.
Free from occupation; not busy.
In a leisurely manner; at a convenient time.
Wiktionary
a. free from occupation; not busy adv. when convenient alt. free from occupation; not busy
WordNet
adj. idle; between jobs; (euphemism for `unemployed') [syn: at leisure(p)]
adv. in an unhurried way or at one's convenience; "read the manual at your leisure"; "he traveled leisurely" [syn: leisurely]
Usage examples of "at leisure".
As soon as the first transports of victory had subsided, Sapor was at leisure to reflect, that to chastise a disobedient city, he had lost the flower of his troops, and the most favorable season for conquest.
The streets were filthy, there were stretcher-parties everywhere, ferrying fever cases from the camps outside town to the sewers they called hospitals, there was no order about anything, and I thought, well, we'll make our quarters on board until we can find decent lodgings at leisure.
Then full refueling could be accomplished more or less at leisure.
Now we are fed at leisure, participating in planned activities, are allowed to gather in small groups for discussion and continue to meet with our therapists—.
Several copies of these as well as of your other notes, should be made at leisure times &.
Some of them, indeed, on the very first blush, as soon as they are spoken, exhibit Christ and the Church, although some things in them that are less intelligible remain to be expounded at leisure.
We were soon at leisure to examine the place with minute inspection, and found many cavities which, as the waterman told us, went backward to a depth which they had never explored.