vacancy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun being unoccupied
  2. noun an empty area or space
    void; emptiness; vacuum.
    • the huge desert voids
    • the emptiness of outer space
    • without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum

WordNet

Va"can*cy noun
Etymology
Cf. F. vacance.
Wordforms
plural Vacancies
Definitions
  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. an unrented apartment, room in a hotel, motel, etc.

Webster 1913