Definitions for vacancies

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vacancies va·can·cy

Spelling: [vey-kuh n-see]

IPA: /ˈveɪ kən si/

Vacancies is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in vacancies (aacceinsv).

Definitions for vacancies

noun

1. the state of being vacant; emptiness.
2. a vacant, empty, or unoccupied place, as untenanted lodgings or offices:
3. a gap; opening; breach.
4. an unoccupied position or office:
5. lack of thought or intelligence; vacuity:
6. Crystallography. (in a crystal) an imperfection resulting from an unoccupied lattice position. Compare interstitial (def 3).
7. Archaic. absence of activity; idleness.

Origin of vacancies

From the Medieval Latin word vacantia, dating back to 1570-80. See vacant, -ancy

Examples for vacancies

But since the vacancy at the spy agency opened up, there are indications he may have had a change of heart.

That ratio represents an improvement from the nadir of the recession, when there were 5.5 job seekers for every vacancy.

We now up helm, and steered for a vacancy among the British vessels.

It hasn't got no employment for its mind, and is always in a state of vacancy.

And—perhaps you'd better not say you are applying until we find out if there is a vacancy.

And if you want to see it get even worse, just wait until the president selects someone to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy.

Another of the many shapes in which it started up about him, out of vacancy.

Not that a vacancy or appointments elsewhere in Washington may matter.

Then, as for knowing there was a vacancy, that also was money.

Emanuel refused its call that a principal hire a laid-off teacher when three of them applied for a vacancy.