Definitions for vacancy

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vacancy va·can·cy

Spelling: [vey-kuh n-see]

IPA: /ˈveɪ kən si/

Vacancy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in vacancy (aaccnvy).

Definitions for vacancy

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 vacancy

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

Examples for vacancy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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