Holiday vs. Vacancy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Holiday and Vacancy
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Holiday
A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced. Generally, holidays are intended to allow individuals to celebrate or commemorate an event or tradition of cultural or religious significance.
Vacancy
An unoccupied position or job
A vacancy for a shorthand typist
Holiday
An extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home or in travelling.
I spent my summer holidays on a farm
Fred was on holiday in Spain
Vacancy
Empty space
Cathy stared into vacancy, seeing nothing
Holiday
A short period during which the payment of instalments, tax, etc. may be suspended
A pension holiday
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Vacancy
Lack of intelligence or understanding
Vacancy, vanity, and inane deception
Holiday
Spend a holiday in a specified place
He is holidaying in Italy
Vacancy
The condition of being vacant or unoccupied.
Holiday
A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event.
Vacancy
An empty or unoccupied space.
Holiday
A religious feast day; a holy day.
Vacancy
A position, office, or place of accommodation that is unfilled or unoccupied.
Holiday
Chiefly British A vacation. Often used in the phrase on holiday.
Vacancy
Emptiness of mind; inanity.
Holiday
To pass a holiday or vacation.
Vacancy
A crystal defect caused by the absence of an atom, ion, or molecule in a crystal lattice.
Holiday
A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.
Today is a Wiccan holiday!
Vacancy
(Archaic) A period of leisure; idleness.
Holiday
A day declared free from work by the state or government.
Vacancy
An unoccupied position or job.
Holiday
A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.
Vacancy
An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
Holiday
A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).
I want to take a French course this summer holiday.
Vacancy
Empty space.
Holiday
(finance) A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made.
A mortgage payment holiday
Vacancy
A blank mind, unoccupied with thought.
Holiday
A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.
Vacancy
Lack of intelligence or understanding.
Holiday
(intransitive) To take a period of time away from work or study.
Vacancy
(physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
Holiday
To spend a period of time in recreational travel.
Vacancy
The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous.
Holiday
A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
Vacancy
That which is vacant.
Holiday
A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.
And young and old come forth to playOn a sunshine holiday.
Vacancy
Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
How is't with you,That you do bend your eye on vacancy?
Holiday
A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
Vacancy
An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.
Holiday
Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
Vacancy
Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities.
No interim, not a minute's vacancy.
Those little vacancies from toil are sweet.
Holiday
Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised.
Vacancy
A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
Holiday
Leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure;
We get two weeks of vacation every summer
We took a short holiday in Puerto Rico
Vacancy
Being unoccupied
Holiday
A day on which work is suspended by law or custom;
No mail is delivered on federal holidays
It's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover
Vacancy
An empty area or space;
The huge desert voids
The emptiness of outer space
Without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum
Holiday
Spend or take a vacation
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