vacancy
5
2.7
- noun
- /ˈveɪkənsi/
:
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- The hotel has a vacancy for a single room this weekend.
- vacancy rates
Examples
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After the previous tenant moved out, the vacancy was filled quickly by a new resident.
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Still, there is something terrifying in the vacancy Abraham witnesses, this still world whose only movement is the noiseless smoke rising from scorched earth.
Academic text (2008) -
Do you feel a vacancy in your life about that, John, something you wish could be filled by a face, a voice, an image?
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The silent, empty ship is an ideal focus of vacancy.
Fiction book (2001) -
With plenty of old buildings and lots of vacancies, it's only natural that downtown should be filled with stores.
Blog text (28) -
One thing I always loved about the Mansion on the Hill was its emptiness, its vacancy.
Fiction book (1997) -
Human beings tend to impose a symbolic figure to occupy the vacancy and signify presence.
Academic text (1997) -
Due to high demand, the vacancy rate at local apartments is very low.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
An empty area available for use
182
6.5
A very empty space or feeling that is hard to fill
103
1.7
An empty space between words or lines in writing
77
4.2
A space with no air or other matter
14
3.6
A space or place that has nothing in it
4
4.3
A feeling of emptiness with no thoughts or emotion
3
1.6
An empty area for writing or filling in information
A place or space with nothing in it and no activity
An empty space with nothing inside
A feeling of emptiness after something important ends
Compounds
How Occupied
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Vacancy comes from the Latin word vacare, which means 'to be empty'. Think of a vacuum or an empty room: a vacancy is an open space or emptiness where something could be.