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at leisure	having free or spare time; not working or otherwise occupied.
at one's leisure	when the time is convenient; when one has spare time.
by the skin of one's teeth	(informal) by an exceptionally thin margin of time, money, or the like; with little to spare.
chop shop	(informal) a garage or similar place in which stolen automobiles are dismantled and the parts sold or used as spare parts.
hobby¹	an interest or activity that one does for pleasure in one's spare time.
lean²	anything that is spare or lean. [1/5 definitions]
save¹	to keep (something) from being carried out or used in way that would be wasteful; spare. [1/4 definitions]
sheet anchor	a large spare anchor, carried for use in an emergency. [1/2 definitions]
sideline	a business or activity that a person carries out in his or her spare time. [1/2 definitions]
spareable	combined form of spare.
white lie	a small or harmless lie, often told to spare someone's feelings; well-intentioned fib.

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