Definition of Vacancy

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emptiness; available space, empty room at a hotel; available position, job opening
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Vacancy Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(n.)
Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
  
(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; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.
  
(n.)
A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
  
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vacancy
\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. 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? (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. no interim, not a minute's vacancy. those little vacancies from toil are sweet. (d) a place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
vacancy
n
1. being unoccupied
2. an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space" [syn: void, emptiness]




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Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
emptiness: folmhacht
a situation unoccupied: post folamh
WordNet 2.0

Noun
1. being unoccupied
(hypernym) emptiness
2. an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum"
(synonym) void, emptiness, vacuum
(hypernym) space
Vacancy Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
Materials Science and Engineering Glossary of Terms
an unfilled lattice site in a crystal structure.
Vacancy Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Vacancy or No Vacancy may refer to:
  • Vacancy (film), a 2007 American horror film
  • Vacancy (EP), an EP by Joseph Arthur
  • Vacancy (economics) or job opening, a position offered by a business that wishes to hire a worker
  • "Vacancy" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  • Vacancy defect or simply vacancy, a type of point defect in a crystal
  • , formerly The Vacancy, a UK pop group
  • No Vacancy, a 1999 film starring Christina Ricci
  • No Vacancy, a fictional rock band in the 2003 film School of Rock

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Vacancy Definition from Law Dictionaries & Glossaries
The 'Lectric Law Library
A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled.

By the Constitution of the United States, the President has the power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate.
Courtesy of the 'Lectric Law Library.