Pre-cation is a neologism emanating from the USA, allegedly originating with 42 Floors, a real estate company based in San Francisco. The term is of course a creative coinage which follows in the footsteps of other recent blends based on the word vacation. This is a trend which began in 2008 with the staycation, a reference to a holiday in which you stay at home and visit places near to where you live. Other -cations followed (e.g. daycation = day trip, greycation = holiday with grandparents, mancation = boys only, etc). However, resonating with society in a period of economic downturn and austerity, it’s only really staycation which has genuinely caught on, still used on both sides of the Atlantic despite the fact that vacations are routinely described as holidays in the UK.