vacant
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2.6
- adjective
- /ˈveɪkənt/
:
vacante
- After the last tenant moved out, the apartment remained vacant for several months.
- a vacant position
- a vacant seat
- a vacant job
I didn't leave it vacant as a backup plan.
- I didn't leave it vacant as a backup plan.
- See, when my real estate is vacant, I don't get paid.
- So I went to Johns Hopkins University and we met in a vacant classroom.
- It's got Trump's name on it and it's worthless and vacant.
- Now the biggest change to the vacant land contract was the addition of vacant land disclosure statement.
- The room sits vacant as a door opens and she enters smiling.
- If you own a vacant building and, and, and people squatted that right, what should happen to them?
- So the way that Spanish taxis work, yellow cars at night, they have a little thing on the top, and if it's vacant, it's green, and if it's taken, it's red or off.
- The host of Anti Corruption Champion has been vacant for over a year.
Examples
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We're filling a vacant position.
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But there were many vacant shops with For Rent signs in their dusty windows.
Fiction book (1992) -
Number 25 is vacant, so maybe we can go through there.
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- Room 4 is vacant.
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The post is vacant, my dear cousin.
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I think that apartment was vacant.
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The post of a teaching assistant fell vacant in his department, and he was appointed to it.
Fiction book (1992) -
Yes, there's a vacant apartment.
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The room sits vacant as a door opens and she enters smiling.
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In the lobby, a single lamp burned at the vacant desk of the night watchman.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Not containing anything
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3.4
Empty and not used by anyone
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4.1
Not yet finished or given for jobs and orders
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8.1
Not rented or lived in and empty
Antonyms
Compounds
How Occupied
Surface Forms
Morphology
vacant = vacate (transparent) = vac + ant
The adjective meaning 'not occupied' directly reflects the base sense 'vacate/vacancy' (empty) combined with the adjectival suffix '-ant'.
Etymology
Vacant comes from the old Latin root vacare, which means 'to be empty'. Think of words like vacancy or vacuum — places with nothing inside — so a vacant seat or house is one that is not occupied.