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VACATION(law)
vacation(dictionary)
summer vacation(dictionary)
vacation 1, noun(dictionary)
vacation 2, verb(dictionary)
Long Vacation(law)
The Boardwalk Vacation Retreat(tourism)
Train travel vacation(tourism)
Holiday Vacation Homes(tourism)

vacation (iou)



vacation noun & verb. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or from Latin vacatio(n-), formed as VACATE: see -ATION.]
A. noun.
a. Freedom or rest from or from an occupation, work, etc. LME.
b. Leisure for, or devoted to, some special purpose. LME-M17.
c. Absence from duty or one's usual post. LME-L16.
A fixed period of formal suspension of work or other activity; esp. a period of the year when lawcourts, universities, or schools are closed. LME.
long vacation: see LONG adjective1.
A. S. Byatt Anna should have come home for the Christmas vacation.
b. (A) holiday; a break from one's regular work. Chiefly N. Amer. L19.
A. K. Green She went away for a short vacation. S. Brill He received five weeks paid vacation each year.
Chiefly Ecclesiastical. The fact of a position or office being or falling vacant; the duration of a vacancy. LME-E18.
a. A state or period characterized by the absence of a thing, activity, etc. M16-E18.
b. A state or period of inactivity. M17.
A time of freedom or respite (from something). E17.
C. Cotton Giving himself a vacation from the hardships of War.
The action of vacating a house, position, etc. M19.
W. C. Russell Ignorant of the true reason of old Mrs. Ransome's sudden vacation of the house.
Comb.: vacation home US a house used for holidays or at weekends; vacation job paid employment for a student during a vacation from a university, polytechnic, etc.; vacation land US an area providing attractions for holiday-makers.
b. verb intrans. Take a vacation or holiday. L19.
vacationer noun (a) (orig. & chiefly N. Amer.) a holiday-maker; (b) a student on vacation: L19.
vacationist noun (orig. & chiefly US) a holiday-maker L19.