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VACATIONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vacationing mean? 

VACATIONING (noun)
  The noun VACATIONING has 1 sense:

1. the act of taking a vacationplay

  Familiarity information: VACATIONING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VACATIONING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of taking a vacation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("vacationing" is a kind of...):

leisure (freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vacationing"):

busman's holiday (a holiday where you do the same things you do at work)

caravanning (the practice of taking holidays in a caravan)

Derivation:

vacation (spend or take a vacation)


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