Definition of Vacation

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Vacation

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.

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Vacation Quotations

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
Ronald Reagan

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'
Steven Wright

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.
Michael Jackson

Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
Robert Orben

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
Bob Newhart

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.
Frank McCourt

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
Chevy Chase

I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.
Matt Damon

Vacation Translations

vacation in Danish is ferie
vacation in Dutch is vakantie
vacation in German is Urlaub, Ferien
vacation in Italian is vacanze, ferie
vacation in Norwegian is ferie
vacation in Spanish is vacaciones
vacation in Swedish is ferie, semester

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