vacation

IPA: veɪkˈeɪʃʌn

Freedom from some business or activity.
(obsolete) Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity.
A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
(Canada, US) A holiday; a stretch of leisure time away from work or duty and devoted to rest or pleasure.
An extended period of time away from work or school.
The act of vacating something; moving out.
(US, law) The act of making legally void.
(video games, slang) A user's enforced absence from the Steam video-gaming service and its community, as a result of being banned for cheating.

Examples of "vacation" in Sentences

I have been gone away, crazed - and this is what I call vacation!
I wish I could go, but my vacation is already taken up by other upcoming trips.
Maybe that’s because the word vacation comes from the Latin word, vacans, meaning “to vacate” or “to be empty.”
A great outdoor enthusiast, John believes that the word vacation is synonymous with white-water rafting and long, arduous hikes in the woods.
Every time any family has a visiting student into his home, at holiday-time, at Christmas, or in vacation, that is yet one more thread to hold the Commonwealth to gether.
Get could pictures and see the sights while your there, I hope you enjoyed your vacation is the not sure a arrogant pompous idiot will find humble Ohio a place to return to. whaley41
He starts at the very beginning, with the story I already heard from Aunt Georgia, from when he was sent from L.A. by Deb on what she called a vacation but turned out to be a short stay with Grandpa Ivan in Boise and then a longer stay with Aunt Georgia and Uncle Charles.