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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.
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