Vacation \Va*ca"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. vacatio a being free from a duty, service, etc., fr. vacare. See {Vacate}.] 1. The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
2. Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
It was not in his nature, however, at least till years had chastened it, to take any vacation from controversy. --Palfrey. ※ Hence, specifically: (a) (Law) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. ``With lawyers in the vacation.'' --Shak. (b) A period of intermission of regular paid work or employment, or of studies and exercises at an educational institution; the time during which a person temporarily ceases regular duties of any kind and performs other activites, usually some form of liesure; holidays; recess (at a school); as, the spring vacation; to spend one's vacation travelling; to paint the house while on vacation. Vacation is typically used for rest, travel, or recreation, but may be used for any purpose. In Britain this sense of vacation is usually referred to as {holiday}. [1913 Webster +PJC] (c) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.
"We have to convince the business community both here and elsewhere that Hawaii is more than a place to vacation," said Bill Cook of the state Department of Economic Development.
The McKeehans also still give presents to relatives, but they do it well before Dec. 25, by which time they are in Florida enjoying a secular vacation.
Borge, a naturalized U.S. citizen who is still revered in his native land, was reported to be spending a quiet birthday at his vacation home in Christiansted, St. Croix, in the former Danish West Indies.
Looking fit and tan from tennis, jogging and a vacation in the Caucasus Mountains, the 58-year-old Yeltsin was as outspoken as ever in a recent interview.
The Austrian official told The Associated Press that the woman is on vacation and believed to be out of the country.
Then he resigned again and flew to India for a vacation.
Miss Hurley's parents, Gordon and Joyce Hurley of Thousand Oaks in suburban Los Angeles, said Wednesday that Bowie, 42, proposed to their 22-year-old daughter on Tuesday during a European vacation.
Biaggi also was convicted in November 1987 of accepting an illegal gratuity _ a paid vacation _ for helping an ailing New York shipyard.
The average factory worker at Deere earns $15.47 an hour and the company calculates its labor costs at $26.90 an hour, including vacation, bonuses, holidays and other fringe benefits.
Less than 47% of those surveyed said they plan to take a vacation in the next six months, down from more than 52% a year ago.
The official Tass news agency reported today that Mikhail S. Gorbachev left Moscow for a city in Siberia, indicating the Soviet leader had returned from his summer vacation.
"It's a luxury life there," says Jamaa Abdul-Fadil, who arrived home in Cairo on his annual vacation just four days before the invasion.
Pozsgay is on vacation, the daily said.
Mr. Phacos was called home from his vacation and charged with embezzlement, forgery and misappropriation of client funds.
He expanded his repertoire last month after returning from a vacation that included a train ride from Chicago to Seattle during which he heard a club-car attendant recite poetry as part of his announcement he was closing the bar.
In three weeks I was playing it." After three years in the play, Fay wanted a vacation, and Stewart was delighted to substitute.
Many students are expected to extend a scheduled vacation period that begins Monday by staying home the rest of this week.
The traveling executive who loses his charge card just before trying to check into a hotel for the night. The Yuppie dad who cancels all appointments and buys a fishing boat to take his kid on vacation.
He intended the vacation to give jurors respite from stress of deliberations, which could take months.
Flying through Miami on his way home to Burlington, Vt., from vacation in Paraguay, Eli Harvey said a strike "would be a major problem.
In the case, Esposito paid for a Florida vacation for Biaggi and a companion and arranged to pay for a second one in exchange for the congressman's efforts on behalf of a Brooklyn ship-repair company that was a major client of Esposito's insurance firm.
Winslow said the bank owed him $14,520 for 66 unused vacation days and Tuttle said he was owed $11,146 for 42 unused vacation days.
Winslow said the bank owed him $14,520 for 66 unused vacation days and Tuttle said he was owed $11,146 for 42 unused vacation days.
In Foresta, a vacation village near Yosemite, fire destroyed 66 homes earlier this week.
Many market players are on vacation this week, and some investors are betting that they will come back as buyers.
This was alarming to Mr. Ferrari because at the end of his vacation he had discovered that he had driven the rented van with the parking brake engaged the whole time.
That doesn't mean demand couldn't pick up _ there's still a good month's worth of summer vacation season left.
Sears plans to test-market the vacation packages next fall with a mailing to its charge-card customers in a few major metropolitan areas yet to be selected, Sears spokeswoman Kathy Gucfa said Wednesday.
It also calls for Ames to pay $850,000 in vacation pay to the 6,600 employees laid off just before the bankruptcy filing.
In addition, the Easter vacation fell into April this year, compared with an earlier Easter a year ago, which diffused the Easter vacation attendance surge into last year's second quarter, he said.