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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
leisure
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a leisure centreBritish English (= for sport and other leisure activities)
▪ There's a leisure centre with a swimming pool, a sauna, and a gymnasium.
a leisure complex (=where you can play sports or relax)
▪ The new leisure complex includes a swimming pool, a sauna and a gym.
leisure activities
▪ I don't have much time for leisure activities.
leisure centre
leisure wear
▪ This is leisure wear for active people.
leisure/recreational facilities (=facilities for activities that you do for pleasure)
▪ The leisure facilities include a sauna and a gym.
the leisure/entertainment industry
▪ Computer technology has revolutionized the entertainment industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
increased
▪ Unemployment, or increased leisure time, poses different challenges.
▪ Enjoying your leisure One of the great luxuries of retirement is the increased leisure time it brings.
▪ Marketing agencies emphasise this age group's increased interest in leisure pursuits, for example in participative sport and travel.
▪ We can use our increased leisure time, energy and money, to improve life for ourselves and our families.
local
▪ One day in November 1985, Mr and Mrs James went into their local leisure centre to use the swimming pool.
▪ On Wednesdays I train for hockey in the local indoor leisure centre.
▪ We will encourage more effective use of local sport and leisure facilities through compulsory competitive tendering.
▪ The local leisure centre was having a sponsored swim, and the funds went towards its upkeep.
new
▪ A new hotel and leisure centre.
▪ Aquasplash is Minehead's new indoor leisure pool opening in May 1992 with all weather fun for everyone.
▪ One session will look at the role of cities as major providers of huge new leisure facilities and sporting venues.
▪ Macmillan College expects to open its new leisure centre for school and community use in June.
▪ Architects or builders preparing to build a new leisure centre. 4.
retail
▪ She will concentrate on securing and managing opportunities in the retail, leisure, office and industrial sectors.
▪ It will also include retail and leisure units, community facilities and a health care centre.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ As one would expect, single women have the most leisure activities.
▪ It also means that a massive 45. 8 percent of our time is available for leisure activities.
▪ Sports participants have much higher frequencies of participation than do participants in other leisure activities such as the arts.
▪ Are darts and snooker sports or leisure activities?
▪ Each was questioned on driving behaviour, experience, attitude to other drivers, the influence of others and leisure activities.
▪ Other topics on which findings are ambiguous are the effects on leisure activity, crime, and degree of dependence on parents.
▪ Frequently our younger engineers had leisure activities involving strenuous physical activity.
▪ It is an exhibition designed to attract and reflect all aspects of health and leisure activities.
centre
▪ Castlemore is still working up proposals for the final phase of the scheme, which involves building a leisure centre.
▪ Local Activities: walks, golf, fishing, leisure centre.
▪ Up to 20 caravans have parked close to the town's historic cathedral, and opposite the leisure centre and steam train station.
▪ Local Activities: walks, leisure centre, water sports, golf.
▪ A new hotel and leisure centre.
▪ Joanna, 25, walked into the leisure centre where she works at 7am yesterday after vanishing on Tuesday.
▪ Charity dip: Hundreds of swimmers raised more than £1,000 for Cleveland charities in a superswim at Eston leisure centre.
centres
▪ A Northallerton Town football player has been signed up to improve fitness facilities at Hambleton leisure centres.
▪ When they're still young, girls hang around bus stations, leisure centres, bus shelters or each other's doorsteps.
▪ The warning follows tests of pools at schools, hotels, holiday camps and leisure centres in 196 local authorities.
▪ This has stimulated hotel interest in the development of leisure centres.
▪ This offers concessional rates for leisure centres and adult educational courses to retired people and those receiving supplementary and unemployment benefit.
class
▪ Veblen's particular interest in the leisure class determined the direction of his argument.
▪ It favored the leisure class to an undemocratic degree.
company
▪ Likewise, those leisure companies with operations outside the South East may experience less of a slow down.
complex
▪ For clubs in decent pitches though, offices or leisure complexes on part of their land can also provide cash.
▪ Castlemore is developing the 21 ha site for a Tesco superstore, retail outlet and a leisure complex.
▪ Nowadays, prisons are like leisure complexes, with snooker tables and televisions.
development
▪ But wherever they are built, multiplexes are almost always parts of larger leisure developments.
▪ Mineral exploration and leisure development were to be the cover story and they would do at a casual glance.
▪ Threats to parks come first of all from road building and secondly from increasing leisure development, notably golf courses.
facility
▪ The organisation wants to turn the disused school into a community centre offering religious, educational and leisure facilities.
▪ Conclusions Hotel leisure facilities have been shown to be a worthwhile investment in that they can: 1.
▪ The creative use of existing clubs and leisure facilities could go much of the way to addressing this concern.
▪ The club is a discount scheme to be operated in all the district council's leisure facilities from April.
▪ One session will look at the role of cities as major providers of huge new leisure facilities and sporting venues.
▪ Equipment and supervisory staff were expensive, he said, and leisure facilities were often the fist victims of cost-saving cutbacks.
▪ The developers now need social facilities and infrastructure, such as schools, open space and leisure facilities to support their own schemes.
▪ A wide variety of sports and leisure facilities is available for your entertainment.
group
▪ An electronics specialist called Colin Crook set up Zynar three years ago as a subsidiary of the Rank leisure group.
▪ Rank Organisation, the leisure group, advanced 8p to 782p after the success of its scrip dividend take-up.
▪ Allied Restaurants, which aims to develop as a broadly-based leisure group, could be tempted to sell its 20 Wimpy restaurants.
▪ He built up his property and leisure group to pre-tax profits estimated at just under £100 million in 1990.
industry
▪ Sport is not the largest sector of the leisure industry, but it is among the fastest growing.
▪ In true capitalist form, an entire nude leisure industry has responded.
▪ The leisure industry was an urban phenomenon at a time when most of the population did not live in towns.
▪ The factories have gone, the leisure industry is all.
▪ Ten years after the crash that almost cost him both legs, he's taking the leisure industry by storm.
▪ The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy.
▪ The leisure industry, however, is one of the world's largest and most rapidly expanding businesses.
opportunity
▪ Increased leisure opportunities have meant that people can take their leisure during the week and leave Sunday as a day of rest.
▪ Offering after-school play and leisure opportunities for children with nowhere to go.
▪ It also means providing a range of creative leisure opportunities for young people.
park
▪ Alton Towers, 10 miles away, is the largest leisure park in the country and combines a mini-Disneyland with beautiful gardens.
▪ Alton Towers, the large leisure park with gardens, is only 2 miles away.
▪ In a different vein, a half-hour drive will take you to the gardens and leisure park at Alton Towers.
▪ Class C are a group of entrepreneurs who want to build a leisure park in the area.
pursuit
▪ According to the other, housework provides the opportunity for endless creative and leisure pursuits.
▪ The choice of organised leisure pursuits is little short of staggering.
▪ You may have a family but that does not mean you have to neglect your own sport and leisure pursuit.
▪ A whole range of leisure pursuits, hobbies, social encounters, information sources, are automatically excluded.
▪ What time there was free was devoted overwhelmingly to home and family life, including such home-based leisure pursuits as watching television.
▪ Similarly, old people are seen in the same light, which explains their lack of employment or active leisure pursuits.
▪ Marketing agencies emphasise this age group's increased interest in leisure pursuits, for example in participative sport and travel.
sector
▪ The leisure sector has experienced phenomenal growth over the last few years.
▪ Despite this short-term hiccup, it is the Henley Centre's view that prospects for the leisure sector will remain buoyant overall.
▪ Whereas industrial demand fell below expectations, demand in the tourism and leisure sectors has exceeded them.
▪ Designed for the brewing and leisure sector.
service
▪ The route will be presented to the leisure services sub-committee tomorrow with a recommendation for approval.
▪ Liverpool City Council's leisure services department believe more than 30,000 people turned out for a thrilling 20-minute extravaganza.
▪ Councillor Eric Smith, chairman of the leisure services committee, said a report on the incident was being compiled.
▪ School library services may well be funded and managed through the recreation and leisure services department.
▪ Spare time: An introduction to leisure course, run by Middlesbrough council leisure services, starts on February 27.
suit
▪ Ludicrously over-equipped tourists might recognise themselves from this checklist: Track or leisure suit.
▪ Lawyer Leonard Weinglass turned up in a tan leisure suit.
▪ They were fat, fleshy, middle-aged men: one was in a windbreaker, one was in a leisure suit.
time
▪ Research shows that people consistently overestimate the time they spend working and underestimate their leisure time.
▪ Enjoying your leisure One of the great luxuries of retirement is the increased leisure time it brings.
▪ However, your achievements are much more important than whether you read, swim, or study yoga in your leisure time.
▪ We can use our increased leisure time, energy and money, to improve life for ourselves and our families.
▪ How do you use your leisure time?
▪ Increased leisure time is a challenge for older people and most will welcome the challenge.
▪ Assuming that this happened in your area, how would you use your increased leisure time?
wear
▪ Details of a deal with leisure wear company Cotton Traders will be announced shortly.
▪ In the following series the reliance on women in fishnet leisure wear became a bit obvious.
▪ Sally is into high street leisure wear and casual daytime things rather than glitzy disco gear.
▪ The typical leisure wear at the ryokan is a blue and white cotton robe known as a yukata provided by the management.
■ VERB
build
▪ Castlemore is still working up proposals for the final phase of the scheme, which involves building a leisure centre.
▪ The client is also understood to be working up proposals for the final phase of the project to build a leisure centre.
▪ Architects or builders preparing to build a new leisure centre. 4.
▪ Class C are a group of entrepreneurs who want to build a leisure park in the area.
enjoy
▪ Our education system gives us the skills to appreciate and enjoy culture and leisure.
▪ And we work less so that we have the time to enjoy our leisure.
▪ August action A gentle schedule to keep the garden ticking over while you enjoy some well-earned leisure.
▪ Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness.
▪ Some prefer part-time work, so that there is extra income and interest, but time to enjoy leisure, too.
▪ These scenes are a record of the way people living in the countryside enjoyed themselves in their leisure time in 1946.
increase
▪ There is evidence that, in Britain, working time is increasing and leisure time declining.
▪ Assuming that this happened in your area, how would you use your increased leisure time?
▪ Furthermore, the same affluence encourages an increased array of leisure time activity choices.
▪ Threats to parks come first of all from road building and secondly from increasing leisure development, notably golf courses.
▪ Another assumption made by Marx throughout his work is that higher technology increases the total leisure time available.
provide
▪ Parks, moreover, can provide significant leisure facilities - and revenue - in their own right.
▪ It provides leisure time, one of the prime goals for which most men work long hours and years.
▪ It is well provided with leisure facilities for sports and arts.
spend
▪ Eirias Park Spend your leisure time in Eirias Park - the park by the sea.
▪ Virtually everywhere, the fundamentals are sound: the number of older people is growing and they are spending more on leisure.
▪ Day 15 Vancouver-London Spend the morning at leisure in Vancouver until your evening departure for London.
▪ Many people spend this on the leisure industries of the towns, such as the races and football.
▪ The rest of the day is spent at leisure.
▪ It's already spent its £1 million leisure budget.
▪ He decides to spend his leisure time collecting data on the geographical distribution of flamingos and retired people.
work
▪ I think we will balance work and leisure in a totally different way.
▪ Research shows that people consistently overestimate the time they spend working and underestimate their leisure time.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lady of leisure
▪ So you're a lady of leisure now that the kids are at school?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ leisure activities
▪ A wide range of leisure activities such as swimming, fishing, and sailing are also available.
▪ The average person who travels for business or leisure probably has an e-mail account.
▪ The reduction in average working hours has led to an increase in leisure time.
▪ Your standard of living depends on your income and also on the amount of leisure you have.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aquasplash is Minehead's new indoor leisure pool opening in May 1992 with all weather fun for everyone.
▪ For clubs in decent pitches though, offices or leisure complexes on part of their land can also provide cash.
▪ Mountaineering, golfing, and fishing were among his leisure pursuits; he was a member of the Yorkshire Anglers' Club.
▪ Other topics on which findings are ambiguous are the effects on leisure activity, crime, and degree of dependence on parents.
▪ She will concentrate on securing and managing opportunities in the retail, leisure, office and industrial sectors.
▪ The reason for their very big standard errors become clearer from the specification of the leisure effects.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leisure

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.]

  1. Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.

    The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
    --Sir W. Temple.

  2. 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.

    1. Free from occupation; not busy.

    2. In a leisurely manner; at a convenient time.

Leisure

Leisure \Lei"sure\, a. Unemployed; as, leisure hours.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
leisure

early 14c., leisir, "opportunity to do something" (as in phrase at (one's) leisure), also "time at one's disposal," from Old French leisir (Modern French loisir) "capacity; permission; leisure, spare time; free will; idleness, inactivity," noun use of infinitive leisir "be permitted," from Latin licere "be permitted" (see licence). The -u- appeared 16c., probably on analogy of words like pleasure. Phrase leisured class attested by 1836.

Wiktionary
leisure

n. 1 freedom provided by the cessation of activities. 2 time free from work or duties. 3 Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.

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WordNet
leisure

  1. n. time available for ease and relaxation; "his job left him little leisure" [syn: leisure time]

  2. freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity; "he lacked the leisure for golf"

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Gazetteer
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Wikipedia
Leisure

Leisure has been defined as a quality of experience or as free time.

Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores and education. It also excludes time spent on necessary activities such as eating and sleeping. From a research perspective, this approach has the advantages of being quantifiable and comparable over time and place. Leisure as experience usually emphasizes dimensions of perceived freedom and choice. It is done for "its own sake", for the quality of experience and involvement. Other classic definitions include Thorsten Veblen's (1899) of "nonproductive consumption of time." Different disciplines have definitions reflecting their common issues: for example, sociology on social forces and contexts and psychology as mental and emotional states and conditions.

Leisure studies and sociology of leisure are the academic disciplines concerned with the study and analysis of leisure. Recreation differs from leisure in that it is purposeful activity that includes the experience of leisure in activity contexts.

The distinction between leisure and unavoidable activities is not a rigidly defined one, e.g. people sometimes do work-oriented tasks for pleasure as well as for long-term utility. A distinction may also be drawn between free time and leisure. For example, Situationist International maintains that free time is illusory and rarely fully "free"; economic and social forces appropriate free time from the individual and sell it back to them as the commodity known as "leisure". Certainly most people's leisure activities are not a completely free choice, and may be constrained by social pressures, e.g. people may be coerced into spending time gardening by the need to keep up with the standard of neighbouring gardens or go to a party to because of social pressures.

A related concept is that of social leisure, which involves leisurely activities in a social settings, such as extracurricular activities, e.g. sports, clubs. Another related concept is that of family leisure. Relationships with others is usually a major factor in both satisfaction and choice.

Leisure (poem)

"Leisure" is a poem by Welsh poet W. H. Davies, appearing originally in his Songs Of Joy and Others, published in 1911 by A. C. Fifield and then in Davies' first anthology Collected Poems, by the same publisher in 1916.

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
Leisure (disambiguation)

Leisure is time spent away from work, domestic chores, and other necessary activities.

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Leisure (album)

Leisure is the debut studio album by the English rock band Blur, released in August 1991 by record label Food.

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Usage examples of "leisure".

Hutchinson has little leisure for much praise of the natural beauty of sky and landscape, but now and then in her work there appears an abiding sense of the pleasantness of the rural world--in her day an implicit feeling rather than an explicit.

She now first felt a sensation to which she had been before a stranger, and which, when she had leisure to reflect on it, began to acquaint her with some secrets, which the reader, if he doth not already guess them, will know in due time.

The acquisition of knowledge, the exercise of our reason or fancy, and the cheerful flow of unguarded conversation, may employ the leisure of a liberal mind.

After their civil and domestic wars, the subjects of the Abbassides, awakening from this mental lethargy, found leisure and felt curiosity for the acquisition of profane science.

In this state of general security, the leisure, as well as opulence, both of the prince and people, were devoted to improve and to adorn the Roman empire.

Ganges to the Straits of Gibraltar, that they had no leisure for theological controversy: and though the Alcoran, the original monument of their faith, seems to contain some violent precepts, they were much less infected with the spirit of bigotry and persecution than the indolent and speculative Greeks, who were continually refining on the several articles of their religious system.

I wondered what he thought about and what passed through his mind in the sunny leisure which seemed to shut him in from that modern work-a-day world of which, in spite of my passion for bedaubing old panels with ineffective portraiture of mouldy statues against screens of box, I still flattered myself I was a member.

Bagnet trusts to the combined endearments of Quebec and Malta to restore him, but finding those young ladies sensible that their existing Bluffy is not the Bluffy of their usual frolicsome acquaintance, she winks off the light infantry and leaves him to deploy at leisure on the open ground of the domestic hearth.

I had enough bread for months of joyful leisure, for cruising, beachcombing, getting- happily plotzed with good friends, disporting with the trim little jolly sandy-rumped beach kittens, slaying gutsy denizens of the deep blue, and slipping the needle into every phony who happened into my path.

By a dexterous application to his sensual appetites, they compared the tranquillity, the splendor, the refined pleasures of Rome, with the tumult of a Pannonian camp, which afforded neither leisure nor materials for luxury.

British women, formerly ladies of leisure employing cooks, dhobis and ayas, found themselves coping with all the tasks usually performed by these servants.

Gertrude and Anna Midel occupied my leisure moments agreeably enough during the rest of my stay at Augsburg, but they did not make me neglect society.

He was a most respectable man--a drysalter from nine to four, and a Presbyterian in his leisure moments.

At Eger they had a memorable dinner, with so much leisure for it that they could form a life-long friendship for the old English-speaking waiter who served them, and would not suffer them to hurry themselves.

Or a secluded landing area where the Mrachanis could raise everyone aboard to Eldership and dissect the ship at their leisure?