What's the difference between sabbatical and vacation?

Sabbatical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
  • (2) During the early 2000s he began to talk to colleagues about taking a sabbatical.
  • (3) Hilton is unlikely to return from a sabbatical in California because of his frustration at the slow pace of reform.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: The many faces of Jürgen Klopp The deal represents a significant coup for FSG, which has convinced the coveted Klopp to abandon his sabbatical from the game after four months despite Liverpool having no Champions League football to offer.
  • (5) Teachers should be able to do sabbaticals and master’s degrees and to progress personally and professionally without having to go into a management job if that’s not what they want.
  • (6) He read PPE at Oxford, worked with me on a politics programme on Channel 4, landed a job as a special adviser, took a sabbatical at Harvard when working with Gordon Brown and Ed Balls became just too much, returned to Britain to be guided into a safe seat and not long after was in the cabinet.
  • (7) Visiting fellows on a 1-year sabbatical can take months to settle in and organize their personal lives.
  • (8) At the 19 responding schools, sabbaticals were taken by an average of less than one-sixth of the eligible faculty members.
  • (9) But when I was on sabbatical at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, I found that in three months I got an enormous amount of stuff done and did an awful lot of really serious thinking, which was a great luxury, but I also had what felt like an amazingly leisurely life.
  • (10) Like our sabbatical officers, Aaron Porter should support students engaged in peaceful direct action to defend their education.
  • (11) "We went off script: the script that said a few thousand people would turn up, complain a bit, and go home; and the cuts would go through pretty much as planned," said Chessum, 21, a sabbatical officer at University College London.
  • (12) Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp takes charge of his first training session Read more He had previously said that he intended to see out his year-long sabbatical and would not return to management until next season.
  • (13) Does it sound unenthusiastic to raise a sabbatical and postpone your start date for a year before you've even begun?
  • (14) This account of Italian general practice is based on the author's personal experience gained during a one month sabbatical visit to Italy in 1990.
  • (15) A retirement age of 60 was seen effectively as a short sabbatical from work, during which a patriarch could get his affairs in order before dropping dead.
  • (16) Burchill was a columnist for the Guardian and then the Times, but left the latter in 2006, announcing a year's sabbatical from journalism.
  • (17) When Zusi broke into the national set-up last year, he was seen to be getting his chance through the absence of Donovan on his sabbatical.
  • (18) In Sweden, employers who recruit older workers on long-term contracts are entitled to a subsidy of up to 75% of the older worker's salary, while the German government intends to introduce greater flexibility to working time and open up more sabbaticals for its older workforce.
  • (19) José Mourinho is to seek an immediate return to top-level management following his dismissal by Chelsea after insisting he has no intention of taking a prolonged sabbatical from the game.
  • (20) Garde evidently feels revitalised by the sabbatical he has enjoyed since leaving, during which his only football-related work has been as a media analyst, sometimes alongside Wenger, his friend and virtual mentor.

Vacation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
  • (n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
  • (n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
  • (n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.
  • (n.) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
  • (2) Compelling evidence of the transference in this case occurred in the ninth month of treatment when the therapist told the child that she would be going on vacation.
  • (3) Antipyrine clearance was 18% higher during exposure to gasoline than after 2-4 weeks of vacation (P less than 0.01), while antipyrine clearance was unchanged in the office workers.
  • (4) 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).
  • (5) The cerebellar molecular layer of chronic alcohol treated rats showed degenerated parallel fiber boutons and vacated Purkinje cell spines after 6 months of alcohol feeding; degenerated Purkinje cell dendrites were concomitantly observed.
  • (6) Gibson has held the role of chairman since 4 May 2006, when he took over from Sir Victor Blank, who vacated the role to become chairman at Lloyds TSB.
  • (7) He had simultaneously taken degrees in history and economics, so could cope with the politics and economics, but had to mug up the philosophy over the vacation.
  • (8) The authorities had vacated the area, leaving barricades and piles of rubble in place.
  • (9) The infestation happened in Greece during vacation.
  • (10) Obama and his family vacation every August on Martha’s Vineyard, and he has spent most of this year’s trip on the golf course, at the beach and dining at the island’s upscale restaurants.
  • (11) The top court late on Wednesday also vacated a stay from the US court of appeals.
  • (12) A well-known conservative, Ditka publicly flirted with running against Democratic candidate Barack Obama, then a state senator, for the open seat in the US Senate vacated by Illinois senator Peter Fitzgerald in 2004.
  • (13) Vacated postsynaptic sites are subsequently removed by phagocytosis.
  • (14) In the subsequent vacations the Hg values in the students' urine clearly decreased.
  • (15) Asked whether he was worried about being hassled on his family vacation, Jagger said: "Depends where I go.
  • (16) "We are actively considering what is necessary to deal with that threat and we are not going to be restricted by borders," said Rhodes, briefing reporters at Martha's Vineyard, where the president is on vacation.
  • (17) If they do move, they go into the private sector where a smaller home costs the housing benefit budget more than the social housing just vacated.
  • (18) Most travel (71%) was for vacations, 13% was for teaching or study, 11% for business, and 5% for missionary activities.
  • (19) Sabiah Khatun, a third-year student at Queen Mary, University of London, was inspired to study law after her Smart Start experience, after which she was selected for a summer vacation scheme and will start her training contract at the firm in September 2017.
  • (20) That is, APS binds to the subsite vacated by PAPS in the compulsory (or predominately) ordered product release sequence (PAPS before MgADP).

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