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vacation

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of VACATION

to take or spend a vacation <hoping to vacation in Spain this summer>

Synonyms holiday

Related Words escape, get (away), get off; break, recess; ease (up), let up; relax, repose, rest; bum, goldbrick, idle, laze, loaf, lounge, slack (off)

Near Antonyms drudge, endeavor, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg (away), plod, plow, plug, slave, slog, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, toil, travail, work

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