vacation

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /vəˈkeɪʃn/ or /vəˈkeɪʃən/
• (US) enPR: vā-kā'shən, IPA ^(key): /veɪˈkeɪʃn/ or /veɪˈkeɪʃən/, SAMPA: /veI"keIS@n/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

Singular vacation

Plural vacations

1. (countable) A vacation is some time, usually between a week and a month, when people do not have to go to work, but get paid.

   Our last vacation was very nice.

   We took a two-week vacation at the end of July.

   Our annual vacations are the chance to renew family ties.

Verb

Plain form vacation

Third-person singular vacations

Past tense vacationed

Past participle vacationed

Present participle vacationing

1. (intransitive) If you vacation, you take a vacation; you take some time off.

   My husband and I vacationed to the Bahamas over the weekend.

   We will be vacationing in the Adirondacks this summer.

   Tom vacations at the seashore every year.