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"ref": "2009 August, Nancy Conner, “Going Green: Transportation and Travel”, in Dawn Frausto, editor, Living Green: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, part 2 (Greening Your Lifestyle), page 246",
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"text": "[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.",
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"ref": "2014, Arianna Huffington, “Wonder”, in Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-being, Wisdom, and Wonder, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, page 193",
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"ref": "2014 November, William Powers, “Rooftoop Bees and Beans”, in New Slow City: Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City, Novato, Calif.: New World Library, part 1 (Spring to Summer: The Natural City), page 36",
"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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"ref": "2020 March 16, Heather Carrick, “Coronavirus: Glaswegians stock up on camping gear before self-isolation”, in Glasgow Times, Glasgow: Newsquest (Herald & Times), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-27",
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"ref": "2009, Scott M. Spann, “Step 4: Create a Personal Spending Plan”, in Tax Resolution and Financial Freedom: Using the Financial Planning Process to Deal with Tax Debt, Mount Pleasant, S.C.: LifeSpan Financial Planning, part II (Starting the Tax Resolution Process), page 70",
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"ref": "2009 June, Tom Turnipseed, “Simplicity, Simply Put”, in Cecile Andrews, Wanda Urbanska, Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness, Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, part 1 (Simplicity Defined), page 77",
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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",
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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",
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"rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-staycation.mp3",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/En-us-staycation.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/En-us-staycation.mp3/En-us-staycation.mp3.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"word": "staycation"
}
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