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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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.
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.”
I’ll have a brand new stock of ambition laid in by that time after three glorious, golden months of vacation.
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.
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