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vacation English

Meaning vacation meaning

What does vacation mean?
Definitions in simple English

vacation Noun

— A vacation is some time, usually between a week and a month, when people do not have to go to work, but get paid. Our last vacation was very nice. We took a two-week vacation at the end of July. Our annual vacations are the chance to renew family ties.

vacation Verb

— If you vacation, you take a vacation; you take some time off. My husband and I vacationed to the Bahamas over the weekend. We will be vacationing in the Adirondacks this summer. Tom vacations at the seashore every year.

vacation

— noun (= holiday) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure we get two weeks of vacation every summer we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico — verb spend or take a vacation — noun the act of making something legally void

Synonyms vacation synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as vacation?

vacation English » English

holiday leave holidays time off spare time rest leisure recess break recreation furlough visit stop stay sojorn leave of absence discharge day off vitiation vacations vacationing vac undoing time take a vacation take a rest suspension summer spend school sack respite playtime paying off pause pass outmigration otioseness nullification national holiday lay off invalidation interruption interrupt intermission interception idleness hols half-term freeing

Topics vacation topics

What do people use vacation to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity

Holiday
States Time Period of time

Special days
Person Body condition

Rest

Conjugation vacation conjugation

How do you conjugate vacation?

vacation · verb

Examples vacation examples

How do I use vacation in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Most of the people in this town are on vacation.
I'm just too busy to take a vacation now.
I played golf every day during my vacation.
Have a good vacation.
They are going to Bulgaria on vacation.
When you start to look like the photo in your passport, it's time to go on vacation.
When you start looking like your passport photo you should go on vacation.
The vacation is over now.
I can't wait to go on a vacation.
She would willingly come but she was on vacation.
In the vacation, I read the entire works of Milton.
During the vacation my sister and I stayed at a small village at the foot of Mt. Fuji.
If you don't take a vacation, you'll collapse.
Enjoy your vacation.
How did you spend your vacation?
Where do you suppose you'll spend your vacation?
Where are you going to spend the vacation?
I spent idle days during the vacation.
The number of students who travel abroad for vacation is increasing.
Please cut short your vacation and return.

Movie subtitles

My vacation is over.
I'll take a vacation, six weeks, eight weeks.
Where have you been? On a vacation?
God,That Was A Great Vacation.
YOU TAKE ME AND I'LL TAKE A VACATION.
I'LL NEED A VACATION IF WE'RE GOING TO GET MARRIED.
I'LL TAKE A VACATION.
Now, wait a minute, I'm on my vacation.
We've got to rest up from this vacation.
I'm going on this vacation whether you like it or not!
Now, let me tell you, Mr. Gibson. I'm not going back to Detroit before I have my vacation and if you don't like it, you can take my job and you know what you can do with it?
It's all right. You can have your vacation.
I'm on a vacation and it doesn't make any difference where I go, right?
It's just what I'd always hoped and dreamed for my vacation.
Wake up, this ain't a vacation!
Get up, this ain't a vacation!
Wake up! You're not on vacation!
On a vacation?
I'll need a vacation if we get married.
I'll take a vacation.
I've planned a vacation for you in the mountains, at a nice resort where they play bridge and have lectures on art.
You can have your vacation.
What a vacation.
WHERE YOU WERE PLANNING TO TAKE YOUR VACATION.
It would please my parents and myself very much, if you. would like to spend your summer vacation here at the vicarage.
Summer vacation.
Take me, and I'll take a vacation.
Have a pleasant vacation?
If it were summer vacation, I'd travel with you.
I took a 2-week vacation.
Now we'll have to take a vacation.
He wants to see me before I start on my vacation.
Get ahold of Sweeney and send him out of town on a two-weeks vacation.

News and current affairs

The US military's protective umbrella gave large swaths of the world a vacation from war, making it easier for them to focus on economic growth and regional integration.
It is one thing to borrow to make an investment, which strengthens balance sheets; it is another thing to borrow to finance a vacation or a consumption binge.
Indeed, one of the more striking features of the tsunami disaster was that it caught some of the most glamorous vacation resorts completely unprepared.
Americans work more hours per week and have less vacation time, but they have more money to spend.
During past economic downturns, labor unions in Europe negotiated a reduced workweek or more vacation time with no reduction in wages.
Whenever I speak at finance and economics conferences around the world, I find that a great conversation starter with the spouses of the middle-aged business people who attend is to inquire about their vacation home.
Years ago, I never asked about vacation homes.
But now the world is undergoing a second-home boom: an increasing number of people are buying vacation homes in beautiful and fun places that are within a few hours' flying time from their first homes and jobs.
Some of the US counties with a high proportion of vacation homes are seeing price increases that rival, if not outstrip, the booming metropolitan areas.
Japan's vacation-home boom of the 1980's has largely fizzled with its collapsing stock market and urban land market.
But even there, the market for vacation homes remains hot in places like Karuizawa, Lake Kawaguchi, and Hakone.
Being able to afford a vacation home in beautiful surroundings may mean a lot to some people.
Most people who couldn't possibly afford such a vacation home probably don't miss it.
So, as global economic growth continues, and as household incomes rise in today's most populous emerging countries, demand - and thus prices - for vacation homes in beautiful places, either at home or abroad, will most likely soar.
To fix the roof, we may have to accept a less extravagant summer vacation.
On the other hand, in some places, a speculative bubble is fueling today's boom in vacation-home prices.
Moreover, there are plenty of ways for the construction industry to offer untold millions more people the opportunity to call some beautiful place home, simply by building more high-density and high-rise vacation apartment buildings there.

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