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vacation - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'vacation' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Vacation [ n.]
- The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
- Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
- Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
- The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.
- The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.

Meaning of 'vacation' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . vacation [ n]
Meaning (1):
- leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
Example in sentence:
  • we get two weeks of vacation every summer;
  • we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico