Vacancy
['veɪk(ə)nsɪ] or ['vekənsi]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
(n.) That which is vacant.
(n.) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
(n.) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Vacuity, emptiness.[2]. Chasm, blank, gap, space.
Typist: Nora
Examples
- The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Luttrell now peeped his nose into my box, and said, dragging in his better half, half-brother I mean, fat Nugent, A vacancy for two! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She knew that, in spite of his playfulness, his eyes could not change from their darkened vacancy, they were the eyes of a man who is dead. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The vacancy of such a form was perceived by Aristotle, but not by Plato. Plato. The Republic.
- What I insinuated was, that my Georgiana's little heart was growing conscious of a vacancy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Is this a pattern laid up in heaven, or mere vacancy on which he is supposed to gaze with wondering eye? Plato. The Republic.
- Getting a vacancy did not seem to be such a very easy matter, after all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was looking toward the verge of the landscape, yet looking at nothing--nothing but distance and vacancy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At last I saw a vacancy at Mawson & Williams's, the great stock-broking firm in Lombard Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- His presence was so quiet, almost like a vacancy in the corporate air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- During the advance on Corinth a vacancy occurred in the colonelcy of the 2d Michigan cavalry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She did not know how she should fill up the vacancy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The father knew nothing of this, but sat and looked at the letter in terrified vacancy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But we may observe, that while he is aware of the vacancy of his own ideal, he is full of enthusiasm in the contemplation of it. Plato. The Republic.
- Then he endeavoured to get employment as a hackney-writer, to copy for the stationers and lawyers about the Temple; but could not find a vacancy. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Generally lieutenants were appointed to captaincies to fill vacancies in the staff corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The charm of an object to occupy the many vacancies of Harriet's mind was not to be talked away. Jane Austen. Emma.
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