pleasure
US /ˈplɛʒɚ/
Definition
a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
It was a pleasure to meet you at the conference last week.
Word Family
Synonyms
- delighta feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
- satisfactionthe contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation
- enjoymentthe pleasure felt when having a good time
Collocations
- Easy it is a pleasure to meet youdescribing it is a pleasure to meet you (the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information)
- Medium combine business with pleasureto combine business with pleasure, meaning to have or possess in combination
- Hard derive immense professional pleasure from mentoringto derive immense professional pleasure from mentoring, meaning to reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- Very Hard at the pleasure of the governing boardindicating a specific point in time, place, or degree the pleasure of the governing board
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