单词 | leisured |
释义 | leisured (leʒəʳd , US liːʒ- ) 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Leisured people are people who do not work, usually because they are rich. ...the leisured classes. 2. adjective Leisured activities are done in a relaxed way or do not involve work. ...this leisured life of reading and writing. Collocations: leisured class Its readership was not the old leisured class but clerks and office workers, needing their fiction in quick doses. Times, Sunday Times Until the last century, learning was advanced by cultivated members of the leisured class and by those scholars and scientists who managed to obtain some form of patronage. The Times Literary Supplement If you were of the leisured class, you found meaning by diving to the depths of your own heart with the help of art, music, and travel. Christianity Today With the rise of the railway and the expansion of an urban leisured class, the world of weather-battered fisher-folk became the playground of the holidaying bourgeoisie. Times, Sunday Times But the leisured classes didn't need to hustle. Times, Sunday Times |
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