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"text": "[...] 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.",
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"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2020 August 5, Dara Browne, “Fam-cation: RTE’s Baz Ashmawy shares adorable snap of his mother and daughter on staycation in Co Limerick”, in The Irish Sun, Dublin: News Group Newspapers, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-07, photograph caption:",
"text": "Baz [Ashmawy] and his family are staycationing in Ireland this summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic",
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},
{
"ref": "2020 August 5, Edmund King, quotee, “Weekend car use returns to pre-pandemic levels”, in Express & Star, Wolverhampton, West Midlands: Midland News Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-09:",
"text": "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.",
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},
{
"ref": "2020 September 25, Aine Conaty, “Merry Mary: RTE star Mary Kennedy says it’s ‘so nice to explore our lovely country’ as she staycations on Inis Oirr with pal”, in The Irish Sun, Dublin: News Group Newspapers, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-19, photograph caption:",
"text": "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.",
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"To spend a vacation at or close to home.",
"To take a holiday in one's own country as opposed to travelling abroad."
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"(intransitive, informal) To spend a vacation at or close to home.",
"(British, Ireland) To take a holiday in one's own country as opposed to travelling abroad."
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"word": "staycate"
}
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"ref": "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 2020-09-26:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2020 August 4, Terri Schlichenmeyer, “‘Why We Swim’ offers a refreshing read”, in The Philadelphia Tribune, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Philadelphia Tribune Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-19:",
"text": "If you're heading for the water today, or staycationing by the pool, you'll need something to read, right?",
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}
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"To spend a vacation at or close to home.",
"To spend a vacation at one's own home without other overnight accommodation."
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"(intransitive, informal) To spend a vacation at or close to home.",
"(US) To spend a vacation at one's own home without other overnight accommodation."
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"word": "staycate"
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"ref": "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, →ISBN, page 196:",
"text": "They may fill some of the airline seats and hotel rooms left vacant by staycationing locals.",
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"To spend a vacation at or close to home."
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"(intransitive, informal) To spend a vacation at or close to home."
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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}
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