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To vacate or to vacation?

For some time I thought “to vacate” was the correct term to describe the practice of going on a vacation. Recently my supervisor told me that it is not, that it meant “to empty” or “to . Funnily, of course, the term “to vacate” fits quite well to my topic. Sheldon and Bushell have pointed out in their anthology on wellness tourism (2009:6):  “The Latin term vacare – meaning to empty, to let go – is what many think a vacation should accomplish.” Exactly my point!

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