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weisure

noun

Etymology

Blend of work + leisure, coined by American sociologist Dalton Conley.

  1. derived from licēre
  2. derived from loisir
  3. derived from leisir
  4. inherited from leyser
  5. compounded as weisure — “work + leisure”

Definitions

  1. The merging of work and leisure activities.

    • Workers choose the weisure lifestyle when they monitor the BlackBerry while on vacation or post pictures to Facebook between business meetings. The blending of leisure and work is a creative and ubiquitous lifestyle choice[…]
    • Sociologists have been throwing around the concept of weisure a lot in the past few years. Weisure, the blurring of work and leisure, was directed at the encroachment of work into rest.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA