to vacate
52
4.5
- verb
- /vəˈkeɪt/
:
desocupar
- We need to vacate the building for a fire drill.
- vacate the premises
- vacate a position
- vacate a seat
If you want to vacate that space that America is occupied, who is going to fill it?
- If you want to vacate that space that America is occupied, who is going to fill it?
- My my son of the Navy is actually vacates Virginia Beach.
Examples
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Unless you vacate these premises at once, we'll be forced to evict you by whatever means necessary.
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Vacate the premises!
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- I know this comes at a bad time, but we have 30 days to vacate.
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I'm gonna need you to vacate the area.
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I'm sorry, miss, you have to vacate within 24 hours.
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Please vacate the mall immediately.
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Now, if you will kindly vacate my office, I have work to do.
Fiction book (1999) -
Charles told his grandfather to vacate so that the buyers could take possession.
Academic text (2000) -
The good news is, a high level position has just been vacated.
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Noel Jefferson was the other contender for a recently vacated congressional seat in San Francisco.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To go away from a place, person, or group
788
1.2
To leave a job or position
533
3.7
Leave a job or office by giving notice
363
2.3
To hand a job or control you have to someone else
148
3.3
Give up an important job so someone else can take over
91
3.1
Remove all things from a place so it becomes empty
69
6.3
To give up a right, belief, job, or position officially
53
4.2
Stop being a leader with official power, for example a government official or company boss
11
3.4
To move people out of a building for safety during an emergency
6
2.5
To stop working at a job because you want something different
5
5.0
To take out what is inside a container so it becomes empty
Antonyms
How Complete
773
3.1
344
4.1
164
1.9
52
4.5
∞
1.0
129
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
vacate = vacant (transparent) = vac + ate
The verb is directly interpretable as 'make empty' and is closely related to the adjective 'vacant', so learners who know 'vacant' can infer 'vacate'.
Etymology
The word vacate comes from the Latin root vac- and the verb vacare, which mean 'to be empty'. Think of vacant or vacuum; to vacate a room is to leave it empty so someone else can use it.