vacation
/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ noun A1- An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure. · We were on vacation in Florida this year.
- An extended period of leisure time away from work or school. · Schoolchildren are on vacation this week.
- A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
- The act of vacating something; moving out. · The Conservative Party’s vacation of the centre ground gave an opportunity to its opponents.
- The act of making legally void.
- Freedom from some business or activity.
Plural vacations
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I’m sorry you won’t have a home to come to in your vacations, that’s all, but I suppose you’ll manage somehow.”
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.
Teacher and taught were alike glad when the term was ended and the glad vacation days stretched rosily before them.
“But you’ve done good work this past year,” Miss Stacy told them on the last evening, “and you deserve a good, jolly vacation.
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