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

  • (..) tells me to go and arrest Lady Litton immediately, without a charge. I call him back, I find he's not in his office. Even stranger, I find he's gone away on vacation. Cato, things are very fishy in Denmark. Switzerland. Yes, there too. No more. No more. (..)
    1975 The Return of the Pink Panther
  • (..) What? Who? Oh. Yes, yes, okay, I'll accept it. Allô, Clouseau. No, he's not here. He's on vacation. He won't be back for a week. But I just spoke with him, and he instructed me to arrest Lady Litton immediately. What? Yes. That's very easy for you to say. (..)
    1975 The Return of the Pink Panther