vacancy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vacancy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for vacancy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vacancy n being unoccupied 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(s): void, vacancy, emptiness, vacuum
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vacancy \Va"cancy\, n.; pl. {Vacancies}. [Cf. F. vacance.] 1. 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. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. That which is vacant. Specifically: (a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum. How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy? --Shak. (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. --Milton. No interim, not a minute's vacancy. --Shak. Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. --Dryden. (d) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.