gentleman of leisure

collocation in English

meaningsofgentlemanandleisure

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gentleman
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdʒen.təl.mən/us
/ˈdʒen.t̬əl.mən/
a polite way of talking to or referring to ...
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leisure
noun[U]
uk
/ˈleʒ.ər/us
/ˈliː.ʒɚ/
the time when you are not working or doing ...
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(Definition ofgentlemanandleisurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The time is now coming when man may well go out to his work for two hours and face the rest of the day as agentlemanofleisure.
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His retirement may have been prompted by his achievement of financial security and his desire to become agentlemanofleisure.
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He was invalided out of the army and thereafter became agentlemanofleisure.
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He embarked on the life of agentlemanofleisure, made possible by a substantial bequest from one of his fathers friends in 1817.
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He dresses and behaves as a countrygentlemanofleisure, idling with a newspaper and living off the labor of others by luring their fowl to his feather-filled shed.
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I'm very much agentlemanofleisure.
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He is currently agentlemanofleisure.
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He became agentlemanofleisure.
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Franklin and his friends were mostly of moderate means, and none alone could have afforded a representative library such as agentlemanofleisuremight expect to assemble.
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Earth science remained an accomplishment for general scholars, intellectuals, the literati, and gentlemen of leisure, and still abutted onto natural and evidential theology, topography and antiquarianism.
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She would call them ladies and gentlemen of leisure because that is the class in her day which corresponded to them.
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They would set about doing what ladies and gentlemen of leisure have always done, and that is quietly to improve things in their environment.
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I believe that, instead of the unemployed, we must talk about ladies and gentlemen of leisure.
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