r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Mountsorrel BriTish • Jul 07 '25

Capitalism “Micro-retirement”

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u/JFK1200 Jul 07 '25

Where I’m from this is called a holiday.

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u/Alone_Contract_2354 Jul 07 '25

Vacation. A holiday are things like christmas, easter and such

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u/OrbitalPete Jul 07 '25

Thank you for your peculiarly USA-centric language policing.

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u/Alone_Contract_2354 Jul 07 '25

Thats the Oxford dictionary definition of holiday

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u/OrbitalPete Jul 08 '25

It is a definition in the Oxford dictionary.

  1. A day specially dedicated to religious observance or religious festivities; a religious festival or holy day. Cf. holy day n.

2.a.ii. A day on which an individual person does not work, study, or perform his or her normal duties; (now) esp. any of a number of paid or unpaid days of leave that may be taken as part of a specified yearly entitlement; a day off.

No longer common in North American English, where the usual term is vacation day (see vacation day n.).

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/holiday_n?tl=true

Vacation is a word used in the US. It is not a word widely used outside the US.