The word "vacations" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to periods of rest or leisure, typically spent away from home or traveling. Example sentence: I look forward to my vacations every summer, when I get to explore new places.
Next year's calendar will give workers 11 days off, including week-long vacations during the lunar new year – also known as the spring festival – and the anniversary of the October 1949 founding of the People's Republic of China.
And there were Ann Romney's comments about not needing to head off on foreign vacations like the Obamas, because the Romney family had their "own places for that" – at least three lavish main homes at the time the comment was made.
In the vacations I got an internship at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and I volunteered for the Red Cross.
And those cutbacks happen immediately after the shock to the exchange rate....[I]t doesn't look like Americans spring for foreign vacations when the dollar is strong.
But many older people expect trouble in the coming school and university vacations from what one calls the "moral and psychological crisis" of the young.
THE predictions sounded like promises: in the future, working hours would be short and vacations long.
He was visibly uncomfortable with military men (remember that limp salute) and preferred to spend his vacations hobnobbing with metrosexuals in Martha's Vineyard.
Mr Rowland pleaded guilty in December to accepting paid vacations to Las Vegas and Vermont and repairs to his holiday home in return for influence within the governor's office.The Senate passed a budget bill that ignored many of the spending cuts Mr Bush had asked for in February.
Where holidays were once an annual luxury for a wealthy few, low-cost airlines, last-minute deals and new routes have put foreign vacations within the reach of more people, more often.
The recent scandal at paper company SCA, where board members were revealed to have used company aircraft to send family members on vacations to hunting lodges and to the London Olympic games, might have been swept under the rug in the old days.
So why do Americans still seem to have such difficulty enjoying their vacations?According to Cindy Aron, a history professor at the University of Virginia, the answer lies in the past.
