vacancy

noun

1. 1

   An unoccupied position or job.

   Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

2. 2

   An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.

3. 3

   Empty space.

   Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy ….

4. 4

   A blank mind, unoccupied with thought.

   ...—who has not looked back to the past with that passion of hopelessness, which deems that life can never more be what it has been,—with a consciousness that the dearer emotions are exhausted, while in their place have arisen but vacancy and weariness?

5. 5

   Lack of intelligence or understanding.

6. 6

   A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice

Forms

plural

vacancies