Vacancy
noun, plural vacancies.
1.
the state of being vacant; emptiness.
2.
a vacant, empty, or unoccupied place, as untenanted lodgings or offices:
This building still has no vacancies.
3.
a gap; opening; breach.
4.
an unoccupied position or office:
a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
5.
lack of thought or intelligence; vacuity:
a look of utter vacancy.
6.
Crystallography. (in a crystal) an imperfection resulting from an unoccupied lattice position.
Compare interstitial (def 3).
7.
Archaic. absence of activity; idleness.
noun (pl) -cies
1.
the state or condition of being vacant or unoccupied; emptiness
2.
an unoccupied post or office: we have a vacancy in the accounts department
3.
an unoccupied room in a boarding house, hotel, etc: put the “No Vacancies” sign in the window
4.
lack of thought or intelligent awareness; inanity: an expression of vacancy on one’s face
5.
(physics) a defect in a crystalline solid caused by the absence of an atom, ion, or molecule from its position in the crystal lattice
6.
(obsolete) idleness or a period spent in idleness
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