A vacation would be time that you take off as an individual from the place where you work. In many businesses, you are given a certain amount of vacation and can take it with pay (or sometimes not), as long as you stay within the time limit. A holiday would be a day or days in which everybody in the business gets off. Usually, holidays are valid over a whole area. On Christmas, in the U.S., practically all business are closed and everybody has a holiday. Leave is when you take time away from work for some purpose, during which you usually are not payed. You will still have a job when you come back, however. Maternity leave is the time that parents take off from work after a baby is born to be with the new baby.

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