What does vacancy mean?

Definitions for vacancy
ˈveɪ kən siva·can·cy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. vacancynoun

    being unoccupied

  2. void, vacancy, emptiness, vacuumnoun

    an empty area or space

    "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum"

Wiktionary

  1. vacancynoun

    An unoccupied position or job.

  2. vacancynoun

    An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.

  3. vacancynoun

    Empty space.

  4. vacancynoun

    Lack of intelligence or understanding.

  5. vacancynoun

    A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice

ChatGPT

  1. vacancy

    A vacancy refers to a position, space, or opportunity that is unoccupied or available to be filled. It can pertain to various contexts such as employment, real estate, or physics. For instance, in the job market, a vacancy is an available job position that employers aim to fill. Similarly, in real estate, it could refer to an empty house or apartment available for rent or purchase. In the realm of physics, a vacancy could refer to an empty space where an atom or electron should be in a crystal lattice.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vacancynoun

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

  2. Vacancynoun

    that which is vacant

  3. Vacancynoun

    empty space; vacuity; vacuum

  4. Vacancynoun

    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

  5. Vacancynoun

    unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation

  6. Vacancynoun

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

  7. Etymology: [Cf. F. vacance.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. vacancy

    The state of an office or commission to which no one is appointed.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vacancy in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vacancy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of vacancy in a Sentence

  1. Mitch McConnell:

    You have to go back to 1880 to find the last time a Senate controlled by a party different from the president filled a vacancy on Supreme Court that was created in the middle of a presidential election year, that's been the history.

  2. David Bell:

    There's going to be a spike in vacancy rates - there's no question, you're probably going to see some mall managers move tenants around, pretty quickly. This is going to be, 'Let's get the war map on the wall.'.

  3. Patrick Leahy:

    The fact is, when you elect a president, you have to assume a Supreme Court vacancy, he is going to make the nomination, and it would be a sheer dereliction of duty for the Senate not to have a hearing, not to have a vote.

  4. John Cornyn:

    I'm sure John Cornyn's thinking about how long it takes to process a nomination, do the appropriate background checks, that sort of thing, maybe that's what John Cornyn's thinking. But we'll just have to wait and see. I assure you that if there's a vacancy, Senator( Mitch) McConnell and Senator Grassley will make that a priority.

  5. Ali Khreis:

    We have a golden opportunity to get out of the crisis of the presidential vacancy and if we don't seize it there will be no president for one year or two years, the terms of the settlement are not yet mature.

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