getaway

• get-away (adjective)

Deverbal from get away.

getaway (plural getaways)

1. A means of escape.
2. The effecting of an escape.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58:

     This dramatic arrival of the figure in landscape had revitalized its whole problem for him, and that on the practice of a métier going a little stale by repetition. No get away from it, Edmund, he had to have the model. And what a model - tinted up by nature herself as the perfect complement of her own harmonics!

3. (informal) A vacation or holiday, or the destination for one.

• (vacation, holiday): leave, time off; see also Thesaurus:vacation

getaway (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.

   They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.

• gateway, waygate