vacancy
n.
emptiness; available space, empty room at a hotel; available position, job opening
Vacancy
vacancy
Noun
1. being unoccupied
(hypernym) emptiness
2. an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum"
(synonym) void, emptiness, vacuum
(hypernym) space
Vacancy
(n.)
Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
(n.)
The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
(n.)
That which is vacant.
(n.)
Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
(n.)
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.
(n.)
A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Vacancy
A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled.
By the Constitution of the United States, the President has the power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate.