1. emptiness; available space, empty room at a hotel; available position, job opening. vacancy\va"can*cy\ , n.; pl. vacancies (#). [cf. f. vacance.]. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. being unoccupied. 5. an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space" [syn: void, emptiness]. 6. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. 7. That which is vacant. 8. Empty space; vacuity; vacuum. 9. 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.10. Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.11. A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc. being unoccupied.12. 1. A vacancy is a job or position which has not been filled. Most vacancies are at senior level, requiring appropriate qualifications.13. If there are vacancies at a building such as a hotel, some of the rooms are available to rent.
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