(n.) A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
(n.) A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.
(n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
(a.) Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(2) Airbnb also features a number of independently posted holiday rentals in Brazil's favelas.
(3) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(4) After all, you can only drive one car at a time or go on one holiday at a time.
(5) Amid all of the worry about her health, the difficult decisions around the surgery, and how to explain everything to the children, the practicalities of postponing the holiday was a relatively minor consideration.
(6) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
(7) Yet the 11-year-old has met both challenges while at a special needs holiday club near his home in Colchester, Essex, over the last year.
(8) Officials at the ONS said it was hard to assess the full impact of June's additional public holiday on GDP in the second quarter, but officials expect a bounce back from the loss of production in the third quarter, when the London Olympics should also provide a boost to activity.
(9) That’s why when I heard from a family of 11 from my Walthamstow constituency whose holiday to LA had had to be abandoned, my first thought was for their kids.
(10) He reportedly almost never went out, spending America's 4th of July holiday at home, and cooking steak dinners for one.
(11) Target’s data breach in 2013 exposed details of as many as 40m credit and debit card accounts and hurt its holiday sales that year.
(12) You don't have a film called Out of Asia and you rarely go to Oceania on holidays (instead you talk of vacations in Australia, New Zealand or another island).
(13) The president of People with Disability Australia, Craig Wallace, said he was concerned by the potential change to the DSP and that he was particularly disappointed it was being discussed by the minister on Easter weekend, when most people were on holiday.
(14) Cliff's choice of opening a cappella number for the centre court crowds was inspired: Summer Holiday.
(15) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
(16) He frequently refers to it, including in a recent television ad he ran in Iowa during which he reads to his two daughters from reimagined holiday stories with a conservative bent, such as the Hillary Clinton-targeting “The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails”.
(17) Oleg Konstantinov, editor of local news site dumskaya.net, who was in hospital with gunshot wounds to his back and leg, and splinter wounds in his arm, said he had sent most of his reporters home for the two-day holiday.
(18) She finds indoor activities to discourage the kids from playing outside on the foulest days, and plans holidays abroad as often as possible – but still frets about what their years in Delhi may do to her children’s health.
(19) The Financial Services Authority today shut the door on so-called liar loans and warned that the days of homeowners remortgaging to splash out on holidays and pay off credit card debts may soon be over.
(20) By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.
Leisure
Definition:
(n.) Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.
(n.) Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
(a.) Unemployed; as, leisure hours.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reliability and concurrent validity of a simple questionnaire to assess leisure time physical activity has been investigated on 306 self-selected healthy adults of both sexes (163 M; 143 F).
(2) Symptom-limited maximal data were also collected and these are reported in relation to the energy requirements of some common leisure, occupational and domestic activities.
(3) In the 1970s a continuous increase of fat consumption and of cigarette consumption has been balanced by an increase of prevalence of controlled hypertensives, by an increase of leisure physical activity, by an increasing availability of coronary care units and consumption of beta-blockers.
(4) Also playing their part are increased mobility of populations, particularly moves from rural to urban areas, increased affluence, increased alcohol comsumption and leisure time together with greater personal freedom.
(5) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
(6) To determine the prevalence of various gastrointestinal disturbances related to long-distance running and its effect on weight, diet and everyday digestive problems, we gave a questionnaire to 279 leisure-time marathon runners, comprising 10% of the participants in a local marathon race.
(7) Howard Pridding, chief executive of the British Marine Federation, said: “The UK leisure marine industry has continued to grow and create new jobs, in spite of the challenging environment for exports caused by the weakness of the eurozone.
(8) Men in the lower employment grades were shorter, heavier for their height, had higher blood pressure, higher plasma glucose, smoked more, and reported less leisure-time physical activity than men in the higher grades.
(9) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
(10) Such contracts are widely used by retailers, restaurants, leisure companies and hotels.
(11) These factors explain around four-fifths of the overall pay gap between zero-hours workers and other employees.” Zero-hours contracts are widely used by retailers such as Sports Direct and JD Sports, restaurants, leisure companies and hotels.
(12) Certain behavioral risk factors were more dominant among the seamen than among the control group (smoking level, alcohol consumption and lack of leisure-time physical activity).
(13) A subgroup of 63 persons who have access to and do avail themselves of computers on a regular basis (as leisure-time activity) also answered the "Computer-Motive-Questionnaire".
(14) The results of the study disclosed the positive effects of physical activity at leisure on blood pressure status and this was independent on weight and age.
(15) Industries such as retail, leisure and travel are also expected to experience a slowdown in their recovery.
(16) Northern Ireland's minister of culture, arts and leisure, Nelson McCausland, supports a pilot taking place in the province and has suggested it could bring in £3m a year.
(17) The weekly titles will all be receiving new layout and design with a central section of common pages for the weeklies, drawn from the MEN's leisure and entertainment content.
(18) Properties in Garford Road, Rhyl, have been flooded and residents evacuated to Rhyl Leisure Centre where a rest centre has been set up by Denbighshire County Council.
(19) Quantitatively, the most important risk factors for total mortality were low physical activity during leisure time, tobacco smoking and elevated blood pressure.
(20) Physical strain may also have prophylactic effects, as physical leisure activity and muscular strength are negatively associated with the risk of low back pain.