vacancy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an unoccupied position or job

   The vacancy is listed on the human resources website.

2. 2
   noun

   An unoccupied position or job.

   Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

3. 3
   noun

   Empty space.

   Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy ….

4. 4
   noun

   A blank mind, unoccupied with thought.

   ...—who has not looked back to the past with that passion of hopelessness, which deems that life can never more be what it has been,—with a consciousness that the dearer emotions are exhausted, while in their place have arisen but vacancy and weariness?

5. 5
   noun

   an empty area or space

6. 6
   noun

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

7. 7
   noun

   Lack of intelligence or understanding.

8. 8
   noun

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

Etymology

From Late Latin vacantia. Doublet of vacance.