Vacancy

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun That which is vacant.

II. Vacancy ·noun Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.

III. Vacancy ·noun Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.

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

V. Vacancy ·noun The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.

VI. Vacancy ·noun 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.

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