Vacation
The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.
The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.
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Vacation Quotations
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
Ronald Reagan
It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'
Steven Wright
You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.
Michael Jackson
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
Earl Wilson
Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
Walter Annenberg
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
Chevy Chase
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
David Lloyd George
Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
Bob Newhart
Vacation Translations
vacation in Danish is ferie
vacation in Dutch is vakantie
vacation in German is Urlaub, Ferien
vacation in Italian is vacanze, ferie
vacation in Norwegian is ferie
vacation in Spanish is vacaciones
vacation in Swedish is ferie, semester
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