meaning of vacancy
1. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
2. That which is vacant.
3. Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
4. 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. Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
6. A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
7. an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support hell be ruling in a
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