'Vacancy' definitions:
Definition of 'vacancy'
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Definition of 'Vacancy'
From: GCIDE
- Vacancy \Va"can*cy\, n.; pl. Vacancies. [Cf. F. vacance.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. [1913 Webster]
- All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is vacant. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum. [1913 Webster]
- How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy? --Shak. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] (c) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation. [1913 Webster]
- Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- No interim, not a minute's vacancy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (d) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vacancy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence,
- absence of mind,
- appointment,
- bareness,
- barrenness,
- berth,
- billet,
- blank,
- blank mind,
- blankmindedness,
- blankness,
- bleakness,
- breach,
- calm of mind,
- deficiency,
- deprivation,
- desertedness,
- desolateness,
- employment,
- emptiness,
- emptiness of mind,
- empty-headedness,
- engagement,
- fallow mind,
- fatuity,
- foolishness,
- gap,
- gig,
- hiatus,
- hollowness,
- inanition,
- inanity,
- incomprehension,
- incumbency,
- jejunity,
- job,
- lacuna,
- mental blankness,
- mental void,
- moonlighting,
- negation,
- negativeness,
- negativity,
- nihility,
- nirvana,
- nonbeing,
- nonentity,
- nonexistence,
- noninhabitance,
- nonoccupance,
- nonoccupancy,
- nonoccurrence,
- nonreality,
- nonresidence,
- nonsubsistence,
- not-being,
- nothingness,
- nullity,
- oblivion,
- office,
- opening,
- passivity,
- place,
- place open,
- position,
- post,
- quietism,
- second job,
- service,
- situation,
- slot,
- station,
- tabula rasa,
- tenure,
- thoughtfreeness,
- thoughtlessness,
- tranquillity,
- unactuality,
- unawareness,
- unintelligence,
- unreality,
- vacant post,
- vacuity,
- vacuousness,
- vacuum,
- vapidity,
- void,
- voidness