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vacation

/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ verb C2
  1. To spend or take a vacation. (intransitive) · This year, we’re vacationing in Mexico.

He/she/it vacations · Past vacationed · Past participle vacationed · -ing form vacationing

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Verb forms

Base form
vacation
He/she/it
vacations
Past
vacationed
Past participle
vacationed
-ing form
vacationing

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The Spencervale doctor who had come the night Minnie May had the croup met Anne at the house of a patient one afternoon early in vacation, looked her over sharply, screwed up his mouth, shook his head, and sent a message to Marilla Cuthbert by another person.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 257 · C1
I’ll have a brand new stock of ambition laid in by that time after three glorious, golden months of vacation.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 306 · C1
When I went up river we were so far from a school that I couldn’t walk it in winter and there was vacation in summer, so I could only go in the spring and fall.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 52 · C1
Teacher and taught were alike glad when the term was ended and the glad vacation days stretched rosily before them.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 253 · C1

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