Bulletin No. 2, 2020

Coming Closer at a Distance: Snapshots of CUHK in the pandemic 39 revenge spending , n. A boom in consumer spending after a period of economic inactivity. First used no later than 2006, when The Guardian ran a piece discussing the risk of a joint bank account being exploited by an unhappy ex-partner. ‘We think the revenge spending aspect will be very strong in 2021,’ Lalumière said. ‘People were forced to save during confinement because, in many cases, there was nothing for them to do. Maybe they renovated their house and they accumulated loyalty points on their credit card. So there’s a number of positive factors for the summer that perhaps people are underestimating.’ 2 staycation , n. A vacation taken locally, often at a hotel in the context of Hong Kong. An early use of this portmanteau of ‘stay’ and ‘vacation’ can be found in a 2006 article discussing the lack of legally mandated paid time off in the US and how difficult it was for Americans to escape from work. Asda, John Lewis and Halfords said demand for tents, airbeds and stoves had surged due to the staycation trend. 3