vacancy
IPA: vˈeɪkʌnsi
noun
- An unoccupied position or job.
- An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
- Empty space.
- A blank mind, unoccupied with thought.
- Lack of intelligence or understanding.
- (physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
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Examples of "vacancy" in Sentences
- The rule on vacancy is a disincentive to tearing a property down.
- – Another top candidate from last year's high court vacancy is again on the short list.
- I'm not sure what happens in Florida when a representative resigns and how the vacancy is filled.
- I see him now, excellent and venerable old man! his eyes wandered in vacancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight — his
- The Michigan governor, who made it to the vetting level during the last Supreme Court vacancy, is mum on the specifics this time around.
- Besides, for practical purposes most Senators are selected by State governors in vacancy filling appointments, then rubber-stamp elected.
- Ending lifetime appointment would hopefully end the apocalyptic kabuki theater both sides engage in every time a Supreme Court vacancy is open.
- Mr. Guinee said in an interview: "I was merely trying to determine the likelihood of near term vacancy and refilling that vacancy in a market that is one of the worst in the country."
- I see him now, excellent and venerable old man! his eyes wandered in vacancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight — his niece, his more than daughter, whom he doated on with all that affection which a man feels, who, in the decline of life, having few affections, clings more earnestly to those that remain.
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