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Leisure

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

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Ease 76% connected

Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

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Relaxation 76% connected

The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

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Repose 76% connected

To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.

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Rest 76% connected

To arrest.

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Holiday 76% connected

A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.

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Playday 76% connected

A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.

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Playtime 76% connected

Time for play or diversion.

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Vacation 76% connected

The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.

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Leisurely 74% connected

Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.

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Leisurely 74% connected

Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.

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Abandon noun · 78% connection

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

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Absorption noun · 78% connection

Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

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Access time noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive; "acce…

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Adjourn verb · 78% connection

To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public busine…

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Avoidance noun · 78% connection

The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death,…

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Business noun · 78% connection

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether f…

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Calling noun · 78% connection

One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade.

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Craft noun · 78% connection

Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: freedom, occupation, business, vacant, time.
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Disengaged adjective · 78% connection

Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: freedom, occupation, business, vacant, time.
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Disengagement noun · 78% connection

Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.

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Emancipate verb · 78% connection

To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child…

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Employ verb · 78% connection

To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to…

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Employment noun · 78% connection

That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employmen…

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Engagement noun · 78% connection

That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise emba…

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Exercise noun · 78% connection

The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habit…

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Gap noun · 78% connection

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which impli…

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Human right noun · 78% connection

(law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (includin…

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Income noun · 78% connection

That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the pro…

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