holiday-maker

Brit a person who goes on holiday. US and Canadian equivalents: vacationer or vacationist

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holiday-maker

[ˈhɒlədɪˌmeɪkəʳ] N (Brit) (gen) → turista mf; (in summer) → veraneante mf

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holiday-maker

[ˈhɒlədɪˌmeɪkəʳ] n (Brit) → villeggiante m/f, vacanziere/a

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Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great body of holiday-makers laid out yesterday for visits to Mulgrave Woods, Robin Hood's Bay, Rig Mill, Runswick, Staithes, and the various trips in the neighborhood of Whitby.

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Indeed, if ghosts have any interest in the affections of those who succeed them they must reap their richest harvests when the fine weather comes again and the lovers, the sightseers, and the holiday-makers pour themselves out of trains and omnibuses into their old pleasure-grounds.

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This is the profile of the Macedonian holiday-maker which can be carried out on the basis of the date provided by the State Statistical Office.

75 percent of citizens don't go on holiday: nearly 97 percent of citizens organized their vacation alone and 1.67 percent went through agencies. It seems that last year the peak of the tourist season was neither July not August but September. The summer vacation was then used by one-fourth of the holiday-makers whereas only 4.96 percent of citizens went on vacation in August

This year a holiday-maker asked if Interhome could erect a fence at the bottom of the garden so that the family dog wouldn't escape.

It's easily done... arriving a year early

The average price of an excursion per holiday-maker is 12 [euro].

The development of Dubrovnik as a cruise destination

AN elderly holiday-maker died after being run over by his own caravan.

Killed by caravan

A HOLIDAY-MAKER has told of his horror at discovering that six tiny bites he received on holiday in West Africa had each spawned a live maggot.

IN BRIEF: Maggot shock after African holiday bite

The Newcastle lads are certain their shark was the same one that attacked the Cumbrian holiday-maker.

Shark's Second Target

Just as the Blackpool holiday-maker wishes to send home a comic postcard, so does the British holidaymaker when he or she goes abroad.

Holmfirth firm's exports of comic postcards; From: The Huddersfield Daily Examiner Tuesday, October 31, 1961

The hotel worked on the fact that a dead holiday-maker was a good holiday-maker.

Groundhog day

But today, we are concentrating on the ordinary holiday-maker and attempting to raise their awareness of endangered animals.

OPINION: Animals face threat of extinction over demand for holiday 'souvenirs'

THREE people appeared in court yesterday charged with murdering a holiday-maker as they tried to steal his car at an airport.

Car death: 3 in court