staycationing

Verb

staycation (third-person singular simple present staycations, present participle staycationing, simple past and past participle staycationed)

1. (informal, intransitive) To spend a vacation at or close to home.
   • They may fill some of the airline seats and hotel rooms left vacant by staycationing locals.2008, Peter D[avid] Schiff, The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets: How to Keep Your Portfolio Up when the Market is Down (Little Book Big Profits Series), Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons...

   Synonyms:

   staycate

   1. (Ireland, UK, informal, intransitive) To take a holiday in one's own country as opposed to travelling abroad.
      • [...] I staycationed there this summer, enjoying the ancient town of Sandbach with Saxon crosses in its cobbled square; [...]2010 September 14, Fiona Bruce, “Equitable Life (Payments) Bill: Second Reading”, in House of Commons Debates (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 515, part no. 45, London: Parliament of...
   2. (US, informal, intransitive) To spend a vacation at one's own home without other overnight accommodation.
      • Plan a staycation: Enjoy your own house, your own backyard, your own town. [...] This was the third summer the Wyatts and their two children have staycationed in Virginia Beach.2009 August 2, Krys Stefansky, “Getting away from it all in your own backyard”, in The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.: Tribune Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2020

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