Definitions

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  • noun UK Going on holiday.

Etymologies

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holiday +‎ making

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Examples

  • UKHolidaySwapShop.co.uk was founded by husband and wife Dave and Jackie Wiltshire, who wanted to pioneer a new way of British holidaymaking.

    Get a holiday for under 15 Quid! Thatsnews 2009

  • UKHolidaySwapShop.co.uk was founded by husband and wife Dave and Jackie Wiltshire, who wanted to pioneer a new way of British holidaymaking.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Thatsnews 2009

  • The substantial homes sprung up in the heydays of Edwardian holidaymaking when there were plans to extend the railways as far as Happsibrugh, and build an esplanade.

    So Your House is About to go Over the Cliff... 2006

  • We did not think it important to tell the readers where it had landed, leaving some of them with holidaymaking relatives in Glasgow concerned for their safety.

    The enormity of the situation 2008

  • As long-distance holidaymaking becomes more affordable to the middle classes, the elite are ready to dig ever deeper into their wallets to stay apart from the herd.

    Do Not Disturb 2007

  • As long-distance holidaymaking becomes more affordable to the middle classes, the elite are ready to dig ever deeper into their wallets to stay apart from the herd.

    DO NOT DISTURB 2007

  • As long-distance holidaymaking becomes more affordable to the middle classes, the elite are ready to dig deeper into their wallets to stay apart from the herd.

    IN SEARCH OF PRIVACY 2007

  • People were all holidaymaking (if that can be where there is no work), and enjoying themselves, the surf-bathers in the sea, and hundreds of gaily-dressed men and women galloping on the beach.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • His intention was to make all of Rome-and Italy - aware that the bad times were over; and what better way to do that than to give the whole country over to feasting and holidaymaking?

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • The Saint had half-turned in his seat to survey the spectators with casual interest, and his gaze had just stopped thoughtfully at two vaguely familiar-looking men whom he couldn't for the moment place in either the boat-racing or the holidaymaking group — both were overdressed and one was unusually fat, with a drooping moustache — when the Coroner spoke again.

    Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

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