vacate
to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
to give up or relinquish (an office, position, etc.): She recently vacated her position as president of the organization.
to withdraw from occupancy; surrender possession: We will have to vacate when our lease expires.
to give up or leave a position, office, etc.
to leave; go away.
Origin of vacate
1Other words from vacate
- va·cat·a·ble, adjective
- pre·va·cate, verb (used with object), pre·va·cat·ed, pre·va·cat·ing.
- re·va·cate, verb (used with object), re·va·cat·ed, re·va·cat·ing.
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How to use vacate in a sentence
There is wide consensus among attorneys that adoptive parents can vacate an adoption if acts of fraud were committed.
Couple Sues Over Russian ‘Bait-and-Switch’ Adoption of Disabled Kids | Tina Traster | October 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDespite her attempt to vacate the valley and dismantle all its comforts, in the public mind she remains firmly rooted there.
Were Donetsk separatists now going to give up their weapons and vacate the occupied buildings?
Prabhakar is politely being asked to vacate his city and his home.
For their part, the revolutionaries say they are not going to vacate any more buildings.
Ukraine Protesters Turn Stun Guns On Each Other | Oleg Shynkarenko | January 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
At the latter date all artists were obliged to vacate the Sorbonne ateliers to make room for some new department of instruction.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementThe Duke, however, was of opinion that Mr. Grey should not vacate his seat till the day of his going was at any rate fixed.
The Prime Minister | Anthony TrollopeThe home which they vacate by chance they may re-enter and even re-occupy, but never the home which they are forced to leave.
Red Hunters And the Animal People | Charles A. EastmanIt was decided to vacate the house in Tedworth Square and go to Switzerland for the summer.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineIt is not the dead who vacate the premises in favour of the living, but the latter accommodate themselves to the dead.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt
British Dictionary definitions for vacate
/ (vəˈkeɪt) /
to cause (something) to be empty, esp by departing from or abandoning it: to vacate a room
(also intr) to give up the tenure, possession, or occupancy of (a place, post, etc); leave or quit
law
to cancel or rescind
to make void or of no effect; annul
Derived forms of vacate
- vacatable, adjective
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