vacancy

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.

That which is vacant.

Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.

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.

Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.

A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

place position space lack post nonexistence situation opening room station job opportunity absence vacuum hole
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Antonyms

galaxy population world business experience flora
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Hypernyms

space emptiness

Related terms

vacant vacate

Phrases with the word

vacancy rate

Derivatives

vacancies

Examples

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job vacancy. James Goldsmith

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. Robert Smithson

When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy. Sacha Guitry

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. Samuel Johnson

You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. John Kennedy Toole

A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast sorrow was there- The sweet cheat gone. Walter de la Mare

Close letter words and terms

vaca vacabond vacance vacancy rate vacant vacant hour