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😊 To like 🛡️ To have benefits
to enjoy

to enjoy

382 1.0
To have a right or benefit that helps you
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈdʒɔɪ/
translation icon : gozar de
  • The students enjoy the privilege of using the latest technology in their classrooms.
  • enjoy freedom
  • enjoy rights
  • enjoy access

You have Jews who enjoy full rights, all the rights.

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Examples

  • Well, we seem to be the only ones enjoying it.

    Hope Floats (1998)

  • The concept of regionalism, whether financial, military, or commercial, hardly enjoys an auspicious reputation.

    Academic text (1999)

  • I want you to feel great so you can enjoy your life.

  • You enjoy the price because you enjoy the benefits.

  • I was given life that I might enjoy all things.

  • But I personally enjoy the long term benefits of it.

    Ryan Pineda

  • Or should we merely enjoy the benefits?

    Keeping Mum (2005)

  • Until 1950, the large companies enjoyed a virtual monopoly over the generation of electricity.

    Academic text (1999)

  • As a consequence, New Delhi has come to enjoy considerable influence in Afghanistan.

    Academic text (2011)

  • With these new varieties, people began to enjoy the taste of many different grains.

    Academic text (1990)

Antonyms

to suffer
∞ 2.0

To feel pain or be ill

Idioms

to enjoy the process
3 3.5

To take pleasure in the steps of doing something, not only the result

to enjoy the journey
1 3.2

Take pleasure in what you do, not only the result

Phrasal Verbs

to enjoy life
34 1.0

To feel happy and satisfied with your daily life

to sit back and enjoy
  • Informal
16 3.0

Relax and feel happy about something without worrying

Surface Forms

enjoy infinitive
enjoyed past
enjoyed past participle
enjoying present participle
enjoys third person singular

Morphology

enjoy = joy (semi-transparent) = en + joy

The sense 'to have or benefit from' is an extended, somewhat idiomatic use of 'en-' + 'joy' (not strictly 'take pleasure in'), so learners may not derive this specific usage directly from the parts.

Etymology

Enjoy also came to mean 'have' or 'benefit from' something, because having joy was seen as having something good. So when you enjoy a right or a benefit it means you 'have' it and can use it.