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weisure

weisure noun: the merging of work and leisure activities.

Noun

weisure (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) The merging of work and leisure activities.
    • I call how we spend our time (I would say "free" time, but that would obscure the point that this once hallowed bounary has broken down) instrumental leisure or weisure (i.e., work and leisure combined), since the info-economy puts a premium on quk, shrt trms tht cn b txtd fst & rmmbrd easily.2009, Dalton Conley, Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
    • 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[…]2010, Vincent R. Waldron, Jeffrey W. Kassing, Managing Risk in Communication Encounters, page 222

Examples of weisure in a sentence

  • Sociologists have been throwing around the concept of weisure a lot in the past few years.2015, Darrin Patrick, Amie Patrick, The Dude's Guide to Marriage: Ten Skills Every Husband Must Develop to Love His Wife Well:
  • New communication technologies have enabled us to complete private issues during working time and vice versa, leading to phenomena coined as weisure.2018 April 13, “Let’s go out for a drink after work! The relation between leisure time spent with colleagues and employees’ life...

Origin of weisure

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

Questions about weisure

What does weisure mean?
Weisure means the merging of work and leisure activities.
How do you use weisure in a sentence?
Sociologists have been throwing around the concept of weisure a lot in the past few years.
What part of speech is weisure?
Weisure is a noun.

Words near weisure in the dictionary

  1. Weissmans
  2. weisswurst
  3. weisswursts
  4. Weist
  5. Weists
  6. weisure
  7. Weisz
  8. Weitchpec
  9. Weitspekan
  10. Weitz
  11. Weitzel

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