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At leisure   /æt lˈɛʒər/   Listen
noun
Leisure  n.  
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."
2.
Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease. "He sighed, and had no leisure more to say."
At leisure.
(a)
Free from occupation; not busy.
(b)
In a leisurely manner; at a convenient time.





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"At leisure" Quotes from Famous Books



... this information as a dry fact that might be worth looking into at leisure, she passed thoughtfully ...
— A Perilous Secret • Charles Reade
... importunity (which is to me a great Command) required me to do it, I should not so easily have drawn up any thing about it, till I had first satisfied my selfe, how well the Hypothesis would answer Observation: Having for divers years neglected to do it, waiting a time when I might be at leisure ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various
... environed with such hard circumstances, or what deity imposed these plagues, as a penance on rebellious mortals, I am not now at leisure to enquire: but whoever seriously takes them into consideration must needs commend the valour of the Milesian virgins, who voluntarily killed themselves to get rid of a troublesome world: and how many wise men have taken the same course ...
— In Praise of Folly - Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts • Desiderius Erasmus
... of the river,' he continued, still with scrupulous modesty of tone. 'May I not hope to see you some day, when you are walking? All days and times are the same to me; but I am afraid it is only on Sunday that you are at leisure?' ...
— The Odd Women • George Gissing
... a quarter of a mile away. The men, of course, were Jacaro's, waiting until either Von Holtz had secured the information that was wanted, or until an assault in force upon the laboratory would net them a catapult ready for use—to be examined, photographed, and duplicated at leisure. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various


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