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noun

Vacancy n. (pl. vacancies)

The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. "All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous."

That which is vacant. Specifically:

(a)

Empty space; vacuity; vacuum. "How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy?"

(b)

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.

(c)

Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation. "Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities." "No interim, not a minute's vacancy." "Those little vacancies from toil are sweet."

(d)

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

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Etymology of 'Vacancy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vacancy" Quotes from Famous Books

... qualified (aptes) for the responsible duties of their profession. The nomination to the grade of second-lieutenant is not, even after all these conditions are fulfilled, left to the choice of the government. When a vacancy occurs in this grade, the subaltern officers present to the commandant of the regiment a list of three ensigns who have completed their course of study; the commandant, after taking the advice of the superior ...

— Elements of Military Art and Science • Henry Wager Halleck

... realms of imagination to the world of reality. His thoughts began to flow less easily and his tongue occasionally to stammer; the strangeness of his experience came back upon him with redoubled force; the chill influence of vacancy and emptiness oppressed him; his enthusiasm waned; what he was doing began to seem foolish and ...

— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss

... form of the Pines and their kindred species. It is a peculiarity of the pyramidal trees, with a few exceptions, to remain always disfigured, after the loss of an important branch, having no power to fill the vacant space by a new growth. Other trees readily fill up a vacancy occasioned by the loss of a branch, and may suffer considerable mutilation without losing their beauty, because an invariable proportion is not necessary to render them pleasing objects of sight. On account of the symmetry of their forms, the pyramidal trees ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various

... impossible for any honest one, to attempt. When ever politics are applied to debauch mankind from their integrity, and dissolve the virtues of human nature, they become detestables and to be a statesman on this plan, is to be a commissioned villain. He who aims at it, leaves a vacancy in his character, which may be filled up ...

— A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up • Thomas Paine

... Protestants in Ireland were traduced and vilified, concluded his account by observing, that it was the common belief that Murtagh, having by his services, ecclesiastical and political, acquired the confidence of the priesthood and favour of the Government, would, on the first vacancy, be appointed to the high office of Popish Primate ...

— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

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