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:
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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.