Definition of "getaway" []

• The act or an instance of escaping: made a quick getaway. (noun)
• The start, as of a race. (noun)
• A place appropriate for a vacation. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In a business plan marked "personal and confidential" contained in a court file, they called it Oasis Ranch and stressed the need for privacy, exclusivity and security at what they described as a "getaway" and a "retreat.""
• "Designed and built by hiveMODULAR partner Bryan Meyer and his wife, Anne Ryan, this little woodland getaway is a great example of how versatility makes small spaces livable."
• "All the years that we lived on the Oregon Coast, we used the house as a getaway from the horrible weather."