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staycate

verb

Etymology

Back-formation from staycation.

Definitions

  1. To vacation close to home

    To vacation close to home; staycation.

    • On the other hand, when staycation arrived in the 2000s, for a 'stay-at home vacation', one concerned travel firm immediately introduced the slogan: Why staycate when you can vacate? Not all back-formations are immediately accepted.
    • I certainly won't make any kind of believer out of you if you are filling out auto insurance while you're trying to staycate.
    • This was an exceptionally long journey beginning with the illustrious Thomas Cook (1840) and ending with the daring of Dennis Tito's fast flight on Soyuz (2001). I am fatigued, I must 'slow down' – relax or staycate for another trip.

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