I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
summer vacation
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
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I am about to take a long vacation .
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With school being such a lifeline for my beleaguered psyche, the long summer vacation presented a uniquely gloomy and purgatorial prospect.
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Adam could have it for his long vacation .
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It felt like coming home after a long vacation and settling in your own bed.
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In the mornings, in the long vacations , she worked.
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Only 17. 3 percent of 420 respondents reported that a long vacation recharges them.
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The project consists of several months' fieldwork carried out during the summer term and long vacation of the Junior Honours year.
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It meant giving up the security of my salary, together with sick leave, fringe benefits, and long vacation time.
■ NOUN
day
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Head coach Larry Robinson and assistant Rick Green also were missing so they could get an extra vacation day in.
family
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When that goal was reached, we thought about a family vacation .
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Prior will take a family vacation before coming on board.
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Clinton was to leave Los Angeles on Friday for a family vacation in Wyoming.
summer
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In 1961 he spent the summer vacation touring with blues singer Sam Cooks.
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Airports had already been packed due to the summer vacation rush.
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Study for the dissertation for postgraduate degrees is normally undertaken during the summer vacation .
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The planning department officials assigned to work on the project gave up their summer vacations to bring it in on time.
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A major refurbishment of the Science Area took place during the summer vacation .
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The postcards were usually of places we had visited as a family on those grueling summer vacations long ago.
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This led into a couple of summers acting as a professional lifesaver during summer vacations from Sheffield University.
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With school being such a lifeline for my beleaguered psyche, the long summer vacation presented a uniquely gloomy and purgatorial prospect.
time
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Students spend up to 60 days of residence in Gaeltacht communities, in vacation time , during the course.
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Just take some vacation time if you want to be with your family.
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The vacation time you accumulated with your previous employer has to be honored, usually by that employer.
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They gave up their vacation time to campaign.
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Congressional staffers who want to work on their bosses' campaigns must use vacation time .
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A horseback-riding experience is dictated by ability, the size of the travel budget and the amount of vacation time you have.
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His last two weeks as an employee will be spent using up accumulated vacation time .
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So many paperbacks, so little vacation time .
■ VERB
go
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And then you could go on going home for the vacations .
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Another funny thing: I went on vacation once and stayed on the ocean.
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You go on vacation and the e-mail keeps working.
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This summer my parents and me went on a special vacation .
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So we go on vacation and buy gifts for the other parents.
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My friend Sally told us about the first time she and her husband, Toshi, prepared to go on vacation .
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I offered to loan him money to go for a two-week vacation there and see if he liked it.
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It should be with us in August, just as we go off on vacation .
leave
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At one stage she had suggested that he leave for a vacation and she stayed being, heading a Regency Council.
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You have to get this done before you leave on vacation .
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I like the day before I leave for vacation , too.
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Cowher then left for vacation without commenting.
pay
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Clients still have to pay for their vacations , which usually involve the use of unused timeshare units.
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Am I willing to give up paid vacations ... any vacations?
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Contractors are not entitled to paid vacation time.
plan
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Residents planned vacations out of town.
return
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All this would start up when we returned from summer vacation .
spend
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In 1961 he spent the summer vacation touring with blues singer Sam Cooks.
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Can you imagine spending your vacation reading law?
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How will you spend the academic vacations ?
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Even, two or three times a year, so much time spent for vacation .
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People tend to do a good amount of research before they spend money on a vacation .
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His last two weeks as an employee will be spent using up accumulated vacation time.
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Buell recalls spending vacations and summer months picking garlic and onions in Gilroy and asparagus in Stockton.
take
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People often get this way before taking stylish vacations in exotic locales.
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I wanted to go to the movies sometimes, read books, take a vacation .
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Only the affluent could afford to take vacations or to travel abroad because holidays with pay were not mandatory in the 1920s.
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This is a time when most camps close, forcing parents and guardians to take their own vacations .
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Just take some vacation time if you want to be with your family.
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So I took a vacation with a friend one summer and went up to Aspen.
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Prior will take a family vacation before coming on board.
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And in where I took my vacations .
work
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I had met Richard when he came into the estate agent's where I was working during the university vacation .
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We worked hard for this vacation .
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I work during my vacations as an auxiliary nurse at my local hospital.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He worked at the resort during his college vacations.
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I spent part of my Christmas vacation with my dad's family.
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I want you to write about your vacation .
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The company allows us 14 vacation days a year.
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The skating rink will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. during summer vacation .
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Under the new plan, students will have shorter summer vacations and longer winter vacations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adam could have it for his long vacation .
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All the tricks I knew were away on vacation .
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Co-workers told police that she was on vacation and probably heading to the state of Sinaloa.
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Only the affluent could afford to take vacations or to travel abroad because holidays with pay were not mandatory in the 1920s.
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The vacation hardship allowance was almost unheard of and was not being demanded.
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The vacation time you accumulated with your previous employer has to be honored, usually by that employer.
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The problem is that the companies' vacation policies differ and I need to know which one applies.
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These governed other activities on behalf of the workers - such as cafeteria, warehousing, kindergarten and vacation facilities.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Crew members said they were struck by how laid back and chatty the vacationing Clintons were.
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She spent several weeks vacationing at a camp on Lake Michigan with a girl named Sarah.