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Vacancy
VA'CANCY, n. [L. vacans, from vaco, to be empty; Heb. to empty.]
1. Empty space; vacuity. [In this sense, vacuity is now generally used.]
2. Chasm; void space between bodies or objects; as a vacancy between two beams or boards in a building; a vacancy between two buildings; a vacancy between words in a writing.
3. The state of being destitute of an incumbent; want of the regular officer to officiate in a place. Hence also it signifies the office, post or benefice which is destitute of an incumbent; as a vacancy in a parish; vacancies in the treasury of war office. There is no vacancy on the bench of the supreme court.
4. Time of leisure; freedom from employment; intermission of business.
Those little vacancies from toils are sweet.
5. Listlessness; emptiness of thought.
6. A place or office not occupied, or destitute of a person to fill it; as a vacancy in a school.
vacancy appears in definitions for these words:
Disengagement Expletive Fill Fontanel Guardian Intercessor Interreign Marshal Spirituality Supply Vacancy Voidance Way
Disengagement Expletive Fill Fontanel Guardian Intercessor Interreign Marshal Spirituality Supply Vacancy Voidance Way
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