Vacancy

Definition of vacancy:

part of speech: noun

Emptiness; empty space; a void or gap; unoccupied situation; leisure.

part of speech: adverb

VACANTLY.

part of speech: noun

Emptiness: leisure: that which is vacant or unoccupied: emptiness of thought: empty space: void or gap between bodies: a situation unoccupied.

Usage examples for vacancy:

• She did not answer him, but looked away from him as she sat, across the table into vacancy "The Claverings", Anthony Trollope.

• There was room for you and another, so, at the captain's request, Tollemache and I tossed for the vacancy "The Captain of the Kansas", Louis Tracy.

• There was a vacancy in the patrol, and at the next meeting I put it right straight to the fellows. "The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp", Thornton W. Burgess.