vacation

Definition

  • noun: a period of time that a person spends away from home, school, or business usually in order to relax or travel
  • noun: a respite or a time of respite from something
  • verb: to go somewhere during a vacation
  • verb: to take or spend a vacation
  • often used in the phrase 'on vacation'
  • synonyms: intermission, rest, leisure

Examples

  • All employees are given three weeks 'vacation'. [=they will be paid for 15 days that they do not work per year]

  • His parents have a beautiful 'vacation home' [=a house that someone lives in during vacations] by the lake.

  • She spent most of her 'long vacations' [=summer vacations] at her parents' house.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) We all do. It's not every day you bag Bruce Wayne. - Bruce. - You okay? Picked a hell of a time to go on vacation, Mr. Wayne. How long until that core ignites? - That bomb goes off in hours. - Unless we can reconnect it to the reactor. - Can you get Miranda out of here? - Not tonight. I'm sorry. (..)
    2012 The Dark Knight Rises