Vacancy

Definition of Vacancy

Va´can`cy

n.	1.
	1.	The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous. - Sir H. Wotton.
	2.	That which is vacant.
	3.	Empty space; vacuity; vacuum. How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy? - Shak.
	4.	An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.
	5.	Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation. Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities. - Milton. No interim, not a minute's vacancy. - Shak. Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. - Dryden.
	6.	A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.

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