Betekenis van vacation In het Nederlands

• 0 a time when someone does not go to work or school but is free to do what they want, such as travel or relax:

  • We're taking a vacation in June.

  • They went to Europe on vacation.

  • I've still got some vacation time left before the end of the year.

  • the Christmas/Easter/summer vacation

  • UK the long vacation (= in the summer)

• 1 to travel to a place in order to relax, when you are not at work or school:

  • Remember that time we were vacationing in Vermont?

  • Earlier this summer, the family vacationed in Austria.

  • The town is popular with vacationing Americans.

• 2 a period of time to relax or travel for pleasure instead of doing your usual work or school activities:

  • [ C ] The family had just left for a vacation in the Bahamas.

  • [ U ] We always went on vacation in August.

• 3 a holiday from work, especially when you are travelling away from home:

  • I'm planning to take a vacation in the spring.

  • The President is on vacation with his family.

  • Benefits include 28 days of paid vacation.

  • vacation days/pay/time The job comes with a pension plan and vacation pay.

  • a week's/month's/10-day vacation

• 4 a period at particular times of the year when courts of law are closed, and universities and colleges are closed for teaching:

  • I did work experience with a local company during the summer vacation.