vacancy
noun, plural va·can·cies.
Origin of vacancy
Related Words for vacancy
job, gap, void, vacuum, vacuousness, abstraction, room, space, lack, position, situation, vacuity, emptiness, opportunity, post, voidnessExamples from the Web for vacancy
Contemporary Examples of vacancy
Not that a vacancy or appointments elsewhere in Washington may matter.
And if you want to see it get even worse, just wait until the president selects someone to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy.
But since the vacancy at the spy agency opened up, there are indications he may have had a change of heart.
Emanuel refused its call that a principal hire a laid-off teacher when three of them applied for a vacancy.
That ratio represents an improvement from the nadir of the recession, when there were 5.5 job seekers for every vacancy.
Historical Examples of vacancy
And—perhaps you'd better not say you are applying until we find out if there is a vacancy.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
We now up helm, and steered for a vacancy among the British vessels.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
It hasn't got no employment for its mind, and is always in a state of vacancy.
Life And Adventures Of Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens
Another of the many shapes in which it started up about him, out of vacancy.
Life And Adventures Of Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens
Then, as for knowing there was a vacancy, that also was money.
A Woman IntervenesRobert Barr