vacancy
English
Etymology
From vac(ant) + -ancy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈveɪkənsi/
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Noun
vacancy (countable and uncountable, plural vacancies)
- An unoccupied position or job.
- 1965, Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution:
- Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
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- An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
- Empty space.
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- A blank mind, unoccupied with thought.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 2:
- ...—who has not looked back to the past with that passion of hopelessness, which deems that life can never more be what it has been,—with a consciousness that the dearer emotions are exhausted, while in their place have arisen but vacancy and weariness?
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- Lack of intelligence or understanding.
- (physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
Related terms
- vacant (adjective)
- vacate (verb)
Translations
unoccupied position
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available room
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empty space
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