staycation
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: The noun is a blend of stay (at home) + vacation. The verb is derived from the noun.
Compound parts: stay
vacation
Inflected forms:
form: staycations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stacation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stay-cation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: staycations
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: staycationing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: staycationed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: staycationed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A vacation spent at or close to home.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Increasing product lifespans and decreased energy use may also enable both efficiency and sufficiency [...]. This includes means by which materials are used more productively (i.e. the same quantity providing a longer service) and throughput is slowed (i.e. products are replaced less frequently, plus, in the case of tourism, distance of travel is less – the so-called ‘staycation’ approach).
This extreme "no" discretionary spending plan does not have to eliminate fun from your life. It actually challenges you to find creative sources of entertainment and "staycations" (vacations at home or near your home town).
We need to encourage stay-close-to-home vacations, or "stay-cations," and check out nature's splendor, recreational opportunities and entertainment attractions nearby.
gloss: A vacation spent at or close to home.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: If you're feeling the pinch of high gas prices and job woes, try a "Staycation", the new industry term for staying at home and enjoying yourself.
Instead of going away for a vacation, consider a staycation. That's when you stay home and explore your hometown—try a new restaurant, hike a local park, or visit that museum you've been meaning to check out.
[O]ne family I know realized they didn't have the money available for their usual summer camping trip. So instead of going on a vacation they decided to have a "staycation." They parked their pop-up camper in their driveway at home, set up some tents on the lawn, and slept in them every night. They cooked out every day with the grill and found free concerts, museums, and events in their own city.
For me, whether I'm on a visit to a monastery in Greece or an elaborately planned staycation (that involves disengaging from all my devices, going on long hikes or walks, yoga classes and unhurried meditations, sleeping in with no alarms, and reading actual books you can underline that have nothing to do with work), the essential element is to regain that sense of wonder.
I could stop this right now, I thought. We could unpack the car and go back to our lives—a staycation in our own home.
[...] Melissa uses some of her annual leave to add two days to a three-day weekend, and these five spontaneous days off became not only a Greenwich Village stay-cation but also something of the honeymoon we were too busy to take together in our hectic "uni-moon" days. But what to do on our stay-cation? Ten thousand Big Apple activities beckon.
gloss: A vacation spent at or close to home.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
examples: It's holiday time again. Having invented the staycation – no, I don't like the word either – four years ago when we ran out of money and out of patience with French traffic, we are sticking to principle and, as we did four months ago, hanging out at Tom Hodgkinson's gaff in north Devon.
Somewhere in the last few decades the stacation was substituted for the prestige and glamour of the trip abroad, and the recent flurry of low cost airlines all but cemented that as the new tradition for those that can afford it.
The rise in patronage partly reflects the growing trend for ‘staycations’ in the UK, in addition to Pitlochry’s status as the southern gateway to the world-famous Cairngorms National Park.
Many families who had planned to go away for the easter holidays are now deciding to grab a tent and go on an isolated family camping stacations to ensure the kids are still entertained as many holiday resorts go on possible lockdown.
gloss: To spend a vacation at or close to home.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: They may fill some of the airline seats and hotel rooms left vacant by staycationing locals.
gloss: To spend a vacation at or close to home.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
intransitive
examples: [...] I staycationed there this summer, enjoying the ancient town of Sandbach with Saxon crosses in its cobbled square; [...]
Having ‘staycationed’ with her sister in Kinnity, Co Offaly for the past four years, and with a budget of around €350, Bronwyn O’Brien says she’d just be happy to see the inside of a plane. “Although I didn’t mind holidaying at home, there’s nothing like getting on an airplane and feeling the heat hit your face the minute you arrive,” she tells.
It's that time of the year when deleting Instagram seems like a sensible mode of self-preservation for people staycationing, or quite simply stuck on home soil, while others are hashtagging #HotGirlSummer all over the continent.
Baz [Ashmawy] and his family are staycationing in Ireland this summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic
Over the last few weekends traffic is back with a vengeance, with families breaking out of lockdown to staycation in the UK and visit the coast, countryside and shops.
RTE star Mary Kennedy has said that it is "so nice to explore our lovely country" as she staycations on Inis Oirr with her friend.
gloss: To spend a vacation at or close to home.
pos: verb
tags: US
informal
intransitive
examples: 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.
If you're heading for the water today, or staycationing by the pool, you'll need something to read, right?
Related words: vacation
Derived words: staycate
staycationer
staycay
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 宅度假
roman: zháidùjià
lang: Danish
word: staycation
lang: Dutch
word: thuisvakantie
lang: Finnish
word: lähiloma
lang: French
word: restances
lang: French
word: balconville
lang: German
word: Urlaub in/auf Balkonien
lang: Greek
word: οικοδιακοπές
roman: oikodiakopés
lang: Swedish
word: hemester