vacancy rate
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈveɪkənsi reɪt/
- Specialized
:
tasa de ocupación
- In our neighborhood, the vacancy rate for rental units is currently 5%.
- a high vacancy rate
- turnover and vacancy rates
Is our vacancy rate at all our projects the right number?
- Is our vacancy rate at all our projects the right number?
Examples
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There is currently a 9.2 percent vacancy rate on the federal bench throughout the country.
Blog text (24) -
Our city's commercial vacancy rate is currently between 8 percent and 10 percent.
Blog text (5) -
The vacancy rate in this area is less than 2%.
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The minimum value for the vacancy rate is set at 0%.
Academic text (2017) -
Presently, the vacancy rate overseas is 21 percent; in Africa, it is 30 percent.
Academic text (2009) -
Do you know, for example, that homeless shelters have a 10% vacancy rate?
Blog text (2) -
25 years after the building stopped in the mid-1980s, Downtown Dallas still has a 30% vacancy rate.
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Overall, in Northern Virginia, the office vacancy rate is 18.1 percent, and it's 12.7 percent in D.C.
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The hotel vacancy rate was unusually high this summer, reaching 25%.
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The local real estate report indicated that the vacancy rate in the apartments has fallen to 3%.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'percentage of unoccupied rental units' is directly derived from combining 'vacancy' (an empty or unoccupied space) with 'rate' (a measured proportion), so the phrase literally denotes the measured proportion of vacancies. This noun–noun measurement composition is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English patterns, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Vacancy rate comes from the simple image of a hotel or block of flats with some rooms left empty; the word vacancy means being 'vacant' or empty and rate is a number or 'percentage' that shows how many are 'unoccupied', so the phrase means the share of rental places not in use.