Staycation

Quick meaning: Staycation is a noun meaning (informal) A vacation spent at or close to home.

Meaning

(informal) A vacation spent at or close to home.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, informal) To spend a vacation at or close to home.

Example Sentences

They may fill some of the airline seats and hotel rooms left vacant by staycationing locals.

We need to encourage stay-close-to-home vacations, or "stay-cations," and check out nature's splendor, recreational opportunities and entertainment attractions nearby.

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).

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).

Word Forms

• staycations
• stacation
• stay-cation
• staycationing
• staycationed

Synonyms for staycation

Depending on context, synonyms include homecation, staycay, staycate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nearcation, workcation, sleepaway, cottaging, nest, vacationland.

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