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va⋅ca⋅tion

  [vey-key-shuhn, vuh-]
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–noun
1. a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
2. a part of the year, regularly set aside, when normal activities of law courts, legislatures, etc., are suspended.
3. freedom or release from duty, business, or activity.
4. an act or instance of vacating.
–verb (used without object)
5. to take or have a vacation: to vacation in the Caribbean.
Origin:
1350–1400; < L vacātiōn- (s. of vacātiō freedom from something; see vacate, -ion ); r. ME vacacioun < AF

Related forms:
va⋅ca⋅tion⋅er, va⋅ca⋅tion⋅ist, noun
va⋅ca⋅tion⋅less, adjective
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va·ca·tion   (vā-kā'shən, və-)   
n.  

  1. A period of time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation, especially one with pay granted to an employee.

    1. A holiday.

    2. A fixed period of holidays, especially one during which a school, court, or business suspends activities.

  3. Archaic The act or an instance of vacating.

intr.v.   va·ca·tioned, va·ca·tion·ing, va·ca·tions
To take or spend a vacation.

[Middle English vacacioun, from Old French vacation, from Latin vacātiō, vacātiōn-, freedom from occupation, from vacātus, past participle of vacāre, to be empty, at leisure; see euə- in Indo-European roots.]
va·ca'tion·er, va·ca'tion·eer' (-shə-nîr') n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
vacation

  1. n.
    a prison sentence. (Underworld.) : It was a three-year vacation, with time off for good behavior.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

vacation 
c.1386, "freedom or release" (from some activity or occupation), from O.Fr. vacation, from L. vacationem (nom. vacatio) "leisure, a being free from duty," from vacare "be empty, free, or at leisure" (see vain). Meaning "formal suspension of activity" (in ref. to schools, courts, etc.) is recorded from c.1456. As the U.S. equivalent of what in Britain is called a "holiday," it is attested from 1878.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: va·ca·tion
Function: noun
1 : a period in which activity or work is suspended; specifically : an interval between judicial terms
2 : an act or instance of vacating <vacation of a judgment>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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