vacation meaning
[ və'keiʃən;vei'keiʃən ] Pronunciation: "vacation" in a sentence
Noun: vacation vey'keyshun or vu'keyshun
Usage: N. Amer
- Leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
"we get two weeks of vacation every summer"
- holiday [Brit] - The act of making something legally void
Usage: N. Amer
- Spend or take a vacation
- holiday [Brit, Cdn]
Derived forms: vacationed, vacations, vacationing
See also: vacate, vacationing, vacationist [N. Amer]
Type of: abrogation, annulment, leisure, leisure time, pass, repeal, spend
Encyclopedia: Vacation
[American slang]
n. a prison sentence. (Underworld.)
• I had a little vacation upstate for a while.
• It was a three-year vacation, with time off for good behavior.
[Business]
noun
1 [U,C] (AmE)
a holiday or a period when people are not working:
You look tired-you should take a vacation.
I'm on vacation next week.
The job includes four weeks' paid vacation.
Vacation pay is proportional to the number of hours worked.
2 [C]
in the UK, one of the periods of time when universities or courts of law are closed; in the US, one of the periods of time when schools, colleges, universities or courts of law are closed:
students looking for vacation work
HOLIDAY
Examples
More: Next- immediate vacation of the house was demanded.
- i gained ten pounds during summer vacation.
- i've been dying for a vacation for years.
- do i bother you when we go on vacations?
- as to be some sort of vacation.