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Webster 1913 Edition
Vacancy
Va′can-cy
,Noun.
pl.
Vacancies
(#)
. [Cf. F.
vacance
.] 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.
Specifically: –(a)
Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
How is’t with you,
That you do bend your eye on
That you do bend your eye on
vacancy
? Shakespeare
(b)
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(c)
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
. Shakespeare
Those little
vacancies
from toil are sweet. Dryden.
(d)
A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office;
as, a
vacancy
in the senate, in a school, etc. Webster 1828 Edition
Vacancy
VA'CANCY
,Noun.
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.