About The Word Vacancy
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Vacancy
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What's The Definition Of Vacancy?
[n] an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"
[n] being unoccupied Synonyms | Synonyms for Vacancy: emptiness | void Related Terms | Find terms related to Vacancy: Vacancy In Webster's Dictionary \Va"can*cy\, n.; pl. {Vacancies}. [Cf. F. vacance.]
1. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence,
freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness;
listlessness.
All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before
they are habits, are dangerous. --Sir H.
Wotton.
2. That which is vacant. Specifically:
(a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on
vacancy? --Shak.
(b) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things;
an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a
vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences
or thoughts.
(c) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of
intermission; vacation.
Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given
both to schools and universities. --Milton.
No interim, not a minute's vacancy. --Shak.
Those little vacancies from toil are sweet.
--Dryden.
(d) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a
vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
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