vacancy
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- noun
- /ˈveɪkənsi/
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vacante
- Professional publications such as the AER Job Exchange list numerous vacancies, and new graduates are finding immediate employment.
- fill vacancies
- job vacancies
- create vacancies
So you're seeing a trend, rents down, vacancies up.
- So you're seeing a trend, rents down, vacancies up.
- And so they'll have vacancies sitting all the time.
- Also on the note of vacancy factor, see this house right here behind me?
- Looking at this statistic, things don't look as bad as they look when just considering vacancies.
Examples
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Any vacancies?
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We've recently had a few vacancies, so you can quietly stay here until the morning.
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In a town with a 2% vacancy rate, a real estate agent is God.
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I believe you have a vacancy?
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I thought maybe we could train him up seeing as we have a vacancy.
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Sir, there are over a dozen vacancies in Chicago.
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I was wondering if there were any vacancies.
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We've had a vacancy for three weeks.
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You might have heard that there's a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
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The hotel has a vacancy for this weekend, so we can book a room.
Synonyms
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A job that is available for someone to take
A place or space with nothing in it and no activity
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Compounds
How Occupied
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Morphology
Etymology
Vacancy comes from the Latin word vacare, which means 'to be empty'. It shares the same root as vacant and vacuum, so a vacancy is an empty room or job that is available to be filled.