Enjoy
The regular verb enjoy means ‘get pleasure from something’. It usually has an object: …

enjoy | American Dictionary

enjoy
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈdʒɔɪ/

enjoyverb[T] (LIKE TO DO)

to feel happy because of doing or experiencing something:
We enjoyed the scenery.
I enjoyed your book very much.
Enjoy your weekend.
She liked her job because she enjoyed meeting people.
To enjoy yourself is to feel happy because of a situation or an event in which you took part:
I really enjoyed myself last night.

enjoyverb[T] (BENEFIT)

to have the benefit of something:
The schools here enjoy strong community support.
She enjoyed good health well into her 90s.

Examples of enjoy

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After we had enjoyed the meal the company delighted in drinking and singing.
The letters also imply that he had enjoyed the nuns' hospitality on occasions.
Many of these large, horizontally-integrated enterprises enjoyed the economic power and legal autonomy to dominate key sectors of the labor market.
First, large corporations enjoyed massive economic power to defeat unionization drives decisively.
In this stage of society the worker enjoys the entire product of his labor.
1968 to 1982, when they enjoyed a modicum of internal autonomy.
The term "international thought" has not enjoyed a currency comparable to that of "political thought".
Married men, by contrast, lived orderly lives and enjoyed a happy existence because of their families' kindness and attention.
The sovereign must decide what to do in order to restore the normality the community enjoyed prior to the crisis.
Many have enjoyed relatively long tenures raising livestock on their farms, with little or no offfarm income.
A small number of rural inhabitants (9%) enjoys coverage under government insurance, labor insurance, and private health insurance.
They resided in private bedrooms, sometimes accompanied by family members, dined with the doctors in the plush hall, and enjoyed a rich recreational program.
The social liminality enjoyed by musicians, however, often carries with it certain social costs.
We do not have the recourse he enjoyed when thinking about home.
What worries him is the causal relationship between high income levels, which the grinders enjoyed, and their increased access to leisure.
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