Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The condition of being vacant or unoccupied.
- n. An empty or unoccupied space.
- n. A position, office, or place of accommodation that is unfilled or unoccupied.
- n. Emptiness of mind; inanity.
- n. A crystal defect caused by the absence of an atom, ion, or molecule in a crystal lattice.
- n. Archaic A period of leisure; idleness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being vacant, empty, or unoccupied.
- n. Specifically, emptiness of mind; idleness; listlessness.
- n. That which is vacant or unoccupied. Specifically— Empty space.
- n. An intermediate space; a gap; a chasm.
- n. An interval of time not devoted to the ordinary duties or business of life; unoccupied, unemployed, or leisure time; holiday time; vacation; relaxation.
- n. An unoccupied or unfilled post, position, or office: as, a vacancy in the judicial bench.
Wiktionary
- n. An unoccupied position or job.
- n. An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
- n. Empty space.
- n. Lack of intelligence or understanding.
- n. physics A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
- n. That which is vacant.
- n. Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
- n. An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap.
- n. Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
- n. A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office
WordNet 3.0
- n. being unoccupied
- n. an empty area or space
Etymologies
- From vac(ant) + -ancy. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The rule on vacancy is a disincentive to tearing a property down.”
“Mr. Guinee said in an interview: "I was merely trying to determine the likelihood of near term vacancy and refilling that vacancy in a market that is one of the worst in the country.”
“Besides, for practical purposes most Senators are selected by State governors in vacancy filling appointments, then rubber-stamp elected.”
“I see him now, excellent and venerable old man! his eyes wandered in vacancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight — his niece, his more than daughter, whom he doated on with all that affection which a man feels, who, in the decline of life, having few affections, clings more earnestly to those that remain.”
“I see him now, excellent and venerable old man! his eyes wandered in vacancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight — his”
“Ending lifetime appointment would hopefully end the apocalyptic kabuki theater both sides engage in every time a Supreme Court vacancy is open.”
“– Another top candidate from last year's high court vacancy is again on the short list.”
Sources: Obama expected to make high court pick by early May
“The Michigan governor, who made it to the vetting level during the last Supreme Court vacancy, is mum on the specifics this time around.”
“I'm not sure what happens in Florida when a representative resigns and how the vacancy is filled.”
“That would make it interesting for a Bush second term, effectively ending the Republicans 'hold on the legislative branch, and it would ensure that any right-wing nut job nominated for a Supreme Court vacancy is Borked.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vacancy’.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Winter's Bone vocabulary
Study list of difficult words from Daniel Woodrell's novel Winter's Bone. In reverse order: start at the bottom to see words from the beginning of the novel!
plaid, lazy susan, lope, furtive, dour, scamper, hard-boiled, implacable, dainty, stomp, resignation, crank and 138 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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me + student loans =
You know that feeling when you open your wallet and all you can find inside are ATM receipts?
When being a squatter is the least of your worries and that thing called dignity is shove...destitution, beggary, impecuniosity, indigence, mendicancy, poor, impoverishment, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty and 168 more...
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Down in the Zero
What The Little Boy Shot At...
zilch, nil, zip, nihilo, void, vacuum, nada, rien, goose egg, diddly squat, naught, null and 23 more...
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