VACATION


Meaning of VACATION in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

summer vacation

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

long

I am about to take a long vacation .

With school being such a lifeline for my beleaguered psyche, the long summer vacation presented a uniquely gloomy and purgatorial prospect.

Adam could have it for his long vacation .

It felt like coming home after a long vacation and settling in your own bed.

In the mornings, in the long vacations , she worked.

Only 17. 3 percent of 420 respondents reported that a long vacation recharges them.

The project consists of several months' fieldwork carried out during the summer term and long vacation of the Junior Honours year.

It meant giving up the security of my salary, together with sick leave, fringe benefits, and long vacation time.

■ NOUN

day

Head coach Larry Robinson and assistant Rick Green also were missing so they could get an extra vacation day in.

family

When that goal was reached, we thought about a family vacation .

Prior will take a family vacation before coming on board.

Clinton was to leave Los Angeles on Friday for a family vacation in Wyoming.

summer

In 1961 he spent the summer vacation touring with blues singer Sam Cooks.

Airports had already been packed due to the summer vacation rush.

Study for the dissertation for postgraduate degrees is normally undertaken during the summer vacation .

The planning department officials assigned to work on the project gave up their summer vacations to bring it in on time.

A major refurbishment of the Science Area took place during the summer vacation .

The postcards were usually of places we had visited as a family on those grueling summer vacations long ago.

This led into a couple of summers acting as a professional lifesaver during summer vacations from Sheffield University.

With school being such a lifeline for my beleaguered psyche, the long summer vacation presented a uniquely gloomy and purgatorial prospect.

time

Students spend up to 60 days of residence in Gaeltacht communities, in vacation time , during the course.

Just take some vacation time if you want to be with your family.

The vacation time you accumulated with your previous employer has to be honored, usually by that employer.

They gave up their vacation time to campaign.

Congressional staffers who want to work on their bosses' campaigns must use vacation time .

A horseback-riding experience is dictated by ability, the size of the travel budget and the amount of vacation time you have.

His last two weeks as an employee will be spent using up accumulated vacation time .

So many paperbacks, so little vacation time .

■ VERB

go

And then you could go on going home for the vacations .

Another funny thing: I went on vacation once and stayed on the ocean.

You go on vacation and the e-mail keeps working.

This summer my parents and me went on a special vacation .

So we go on vacation and buy gifts for the other parents.

My friend Sally told us about the first time she and her husband, Toshi, prepared to go on vacation .

I offered to loan him money to go for a two-week vacation there and see if he liked it.

It should be with us in August, just as we go off on vacation .

leave

At one stage she had suggested that he leave for a vacation and she stayed being, heading a Regency Council.

You have to get this done before you leave on vacation .

I like the day before I leave for vacation , too.

Cowher then left for vacation without commenting.

pay

Clients still have to pay for their vacations , which usually involve the use of unused timeshare units.

Am I willing to give up paid vacations ... any vacations?

Contractors are not entitled to paid vacation time.

plan

Residents planned vacations out of town.

return

All this would start up when we returned from summer vacation .

spend

In 1961 he spent the summer vacation touring with blues singer Sam Cooks.

Can you imagine spending your vacation reading law?

How will you spend the academic vacations ?

Even, two or three times a year, so much time spent for vacation .

People tend to do a good amount of research before they spend money on a vacation .

His last two weeks as an employee will be spent using up accumulated vacation time.

Buell recalls spending vacations and summer months picking garlic and onions in Gilroy and asparagus in Stockton.

take

People often get this way before taking stylish vacations in exotic locales.

I wanted to go to the movies sometimes, read books, take a vacation .

Only the affluent could afford to take vacations or to travel abroad because holidays with pay were not mandatory in the 1920s.

This is a time when most camps close, forcing parents and guardians to take their own vacations .

Just take some vacation time if you want to be with your family.

So I took a vacation with a friend one summer and went up to Aspen.

Prior will take a family vacation before coming on board.

And in where I took my vacations .

work

I had met Richard when he came into the estate agent's where I was working during the university vacation .

We worked hard for this vacation .

I work during my vacations as an auxiliary nurse at my local hospital.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He worked at the resort during his college vacations.

I spent part of my Christmas vacation with my dad's family.

I want you to write about your vacation .

The company allows us 14 vacation days a year.

The skating rink will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. during summer vacation .

Under the new plan, students will have shorter summer vacations and longer winter vacations.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Adam could have it for his long vacation .

All the tricks I knew were away on vacation .

Co-workers told police that she was on vacation and probably heading to the state of Sinaloa.

Only the affluent could afford to take vacations or to travel abroad because holidays with pay were not mandatory in the 1920s.

The vacation hardship allowance was almost unheard of and was not being demanded.

The vacation time you accumulated with your previous employer has to be honored, usually by that employer.

The problem is that the companies' vacation policies differ and I need to know which one applies.

These governed other activities on behalf of the workers - such as cafeteria, warehousing, kindergarten and vacation facilities.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Crew members said they were struck by how laid back and chatty the vacationing Clintons were.

She spent several weeks vacationing at a camp on Lake Michigan with a girl named Sarah.

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