Vacancy

Quick meaning: Vacancy is a noun meaning An unoccupied position or job.

Meaning

An unoccupied position or job.

More Meanings

1. An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
2. Empty space.
3. A blank mind, unoccupied with thought.
4. Lack of intelligence or understanding.
5. (physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice

Example Sentences

Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy ….

Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

...—who has not looked back to the past with that passion of hopelessness, which deems that life can never more be what it has been,—with a consciousness that the dearer emotions are exhausted, while in their place have arisen but vacancy and weariness?

Word Forms

• vacancies

Synonyms for vacancy

Depending on context, synonyms include vacuum, vacuousness, void, emptiness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include void, emptiness, vacant, vacuum, empty, unfilled.

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