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  • noun Plural form of vacationist.

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Examples

  • Mindeleff came a succession of writers, vacationists, and others drawn

    The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito 1954

  • We worked closely and, I believe, effectively with your Tourist Bureau and your Department of Trade and Commerce in stimulating an ever-growing stream of American vacationists to visit your beautiful land of lakes and mountains.

    The Iron Curtain and The Silver Screen 1949

  • Canada hopes to draw wealthy sportsmen and vacationists, who will then see for themselves the opportunities for investment.

    The Jewel City Ben Macomber

  • Neither the lumber business, nor the leasing of camp sites and bungalows to Summer vacationists and Fall hunters, paid.

    The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats Laura Lee Hope

  • It was all right for pleasure seekers and vacationists, but business men were in a hurry.

    The Black Star Passes John Wood Campbell 1940

  • It has been estimated that in the trunks of returning vacationists, taking this section of the country as a whole, the following articles will be pulled out during the next few weeks:

    Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

  • They will mark the return to the city of thousands and thousands of vacationists after two months or two weeks of feverish recuperation and there is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

    Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

  • The next ban on immigration should be on returning vacationists.

    Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

  • The ten forty-seven train out of New York went thundering up the shore of the lordly Hudson packed and jammed with its surging throng of vacationists who had turned themselves into sardines in order to enjoy a breath of fresh air.

    Tom Slade at Black Lake Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • There were equally excellent opportunities for vacationists in the home island, delightful sylvan spots for rejuvenation, offering a plethora of attractions as well as a bracing tonic for the system in and around

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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