Synonyms for vacation
veɪˈkeɪ ʃən, və-va·ca·tion

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1. vacationverb

   Synonyms:
   holiday, revocation, go on vacation, go on holiday, annulment

2. vacationnoun

   To spend or take a vacation.

   This year, we’re vacationing in Mexico.

   Synonyms:
   go on holiday, go on vacation, holiday, annulment, revocation

3. vacationnoun

   Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity.

   Synonyms:
   revocation, holiday, annulment

4. vacationnoun

   A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.

   Synonyms:
   annulment, revocation, holiday

5. vacationnoun

   A holiday; a stretch of leisure time away from work or duty and devoted to rest or pleasure.

   Synonyms:
   annulment, holiday, revocation

6. vacationnoun

   The act of vacating something; moving out.

   The Conservative Party’s vacation of the centre ground gave an opportunity to its opponents.

   Synonyms:
   revocation, holiday, annulment

7. vacationnoun

   the act of making legally void.

   Synonyms:
   holiday, annulment, revocation

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1. vacation

   Synonyms:
   ease, idleness, leisure, recreation, relaxation, repose, rest

   Antonyms:
   achievement, action, business, deed, doing, drudgery, employment, exertion, labor, occupation, performance, product, production, toil, work

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1. vacation

   Synonyms:
   holiday, recreation

   Antonyms:
   term, business

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1. vacation, holidaynoun

   leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure

   "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico"

   Synonyms:
   holiday

2. vacationverb

   the act of making something legally void

   Synonyms:
   holiday

3. vacation, holidayverb

   spend or take a vacation

   Synonyms:
   holiday

Matched Categories

1. • Leisure Time
   • Spend

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1. holiday

   Submitted by rinat on May 31, 2023  

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1. vacationnoun

   Synonyms:
   intermission (of studies, &c.)

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1. vacationnoun

   Synonyms:
   evacuation, resignation, abdication, invalidation, abrogation, intermission, holidays, recess

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1. List of paraphrases for "vacation":

   holiday, holidays, vacances, leave, recess, vacancy, vacations, break, vacancies

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How to use vacation in a sentence?

1. Ted Goodman:

   Not only did Whitmer and her top staffers vacation to Florida, but they tried to keep it secret because for Whitmer, it’s:'rules for thee, but not for me,'.

2. Joe Schwartz:

   You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.

3. Charles Fraser:

   What if that one surgeon is on vacation when a child takes a turn for the worse ? the margins of error can be so narrow with some children. I know I've rescued some of my colleagues' patients when they were on vacation or maybe just in the operating room with another case, and they've rescued mine.

4. Lawrence Knutson:

   He has golf resorts all over the place. He doesn’t need to go to somebody else’s place for vacation. He can go home.

5. Bei Bei:

   During vacation, none of the technology was associated with shorter sleep time, because adolescents were able to sleep in later, however, we found that social media was associated with somewhat longer time to fall asleep, and this might be due to social media being mentally alerting and emotionally engaging, so it's harder for adolescents to wind down quickly afterwards.