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Definition: Paid Vacation |
Paid VacationNoun1. A vacation from work by an employee with pay granted. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Paid Vacation |
| Specialty definitions using "paid vacation": Employed persons ♦ severance pay ♦ terminal vacation pay ♦ Weeks worked in, Weeks worked in the past 12 months, Worked in, Worked in the past 12 months. (references) |
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Screenplays | That ruthless bastard offered me a 5-year contract, paid vacation, a huge signing bonus, all to make a dispute over slipcovers go away. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) Oh and two weeks paid vacation for all the workers in the quarry, an annual cost-of-living increase, and those little packets of ketchup in the lunch room. (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Paid Vacation (1979) | |
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Business | It is projected that British citizens, who have an average of six weeks paid vacation, will continue to travel to the U.S. as repeat travelers, who have discovered the diversity of vacation opportunities. (references) | |
Belgium had one of the highest wage levels among European countries (per capita income of $25,576 in 1999). Inhabitants enjoy a high level of disposable income and have 4 to 5 weeks of fully paid vacation per year. As a result, the U.S. fly and drive tourism industry has a large potential market. (references) | ||
Economic History | Mexico | Employees are entitled to most holidays, paid vacation (after one year of service), vacation bonuses, and an annual bonus equivalent to at least two weeks pay. (references) |
Colombia | Colombians have 15 days of statutory paid vacation per year. (references) | |
Costa Rica | All workers are entitled to a two-week paid vacation and a Christmas bonus equal to one month's salary upon completion of one year's service. (references) | |
Political Economy | SWEDEN | All employees are guaranteed by law a minimum of five weeks a year of paid vacation; many labor contracts provide more. (references) |
SPAIN | Spanish workers enjoy 14 paid holidays a year (12 assigned by central government and 2 by autonomous authorities) and a month's paid vacation. (references) | |
DENMARK | Danish law provides for five weeks of paid vacation each year. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | Chadian workers accumulate two days of paid vacation for each month of work. (references) |
Worker Rights | Denmark | The law provides for 5 weeks of paid vacation per year. (references) |
Uruguay | The law stipulates that industrial workers receive overtime compensation for work in excess of 48 hours and that workers are entitled to 20 days of paid vacation after a year of employment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
paid vacation | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "paid vacation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | betalt ferie (paid holiday). (various references) | |
French | conge paye (paid holiday). (various references) | |
German | bezahlter Urlaub (paid holiday), bezahlte Freizeit (paid holiday), bezahlte Freistellung von der Arbeit (paid holiday). (various references) | |
Greek | άδεια μετ'αποδοχών (holiday not falling on a Sunday, paid holiday, weekday holiday). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 有給休暇 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆうきゅうきゅうか. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aidpay acationvay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-i-i-n-o-p-t-v" | |
-4 letters: actinoid, adaption, aviation, caponata, cavatina, diatonic, optician, vacation. | |
-5 letters: acapnia, actinia, antacid, avionic, captain, caption, conidia, diction, paction, pintada, pintado, poditic, tapioca, vanadic, viatica, vidicon. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 69 64      56 61 63 61 74 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101001 01100100 00100000 01010110 01100001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a i d   V a c a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0069 0064      0056 0061 0063 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067757025667696786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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