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See more synonyms for vacancy on Thesaurus.com noun, plural va·can·cies. the state of being vacant ; emptiness. a vacant , empty, or unoccupied place, as untenanted lodgings or offices: This building still has no vacancies. a gap; opening; breach. an unoccupied position or office: a vacancy on the Supreme Court. lack of thought or intelligence; vacuity: a look of utter vacancy. Crystallography (in a crystal) an imperfection resulting from an unoccupied lattice position. Compare interstitial(def 3) . Archaic absence of activity; idleness. Show More
Origin of vacancy From the
Medieval Latin word
vacantia, dating back to
1570–80. See
vacant ,
-ancy Related forms non·va·can·cy , noun, plural non·va·can·cies. Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Related Words for vacancy job ,
gap ,
void ,
vacuum ,
vacuousness ,
abstraction ,
room ,
space ,
lack ,
position ,
situation ,
vacuity ,
emptiness ,
opportunity ,
post ,
voidness Examples 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 .
We now up helm, and steered for a vacancy among the British vessels.
It hasn't got no employment for its mind, and is always in a state of vacancy .
Another of the many shapes in which it started up about him, out of vacancy .
Then, as for knowing there was a vacancy , that also was money.
British Dictionary definitions for vacancy the state or condition of being vacant or unoccupied; emptiness an unoccupied post or office we have a vacancy in the accounts department an unoccupied room in a boarding house, hotel, etc put the "No Vacancies" sign in the window lack of thought or intelligent awareness; inanity an expression of vacancy on one's face physics a defect in a crystalline solid caused by the absence of an atom, ion, or molecule from its position in the crystal lattice obsolete idleness or a period spent in idleness Show More
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Word Origin and History for vacancy n. c.1600, "state of being vacant," from Late Latin vacantia , from vacans (see vacant ). Meaning "available room at a hotel" is recorded from 1953. Related: Vacancies .
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