VACANCIES

Definition: VACANCIES

VACANCIES

Plural

1. Of Vacancy

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "VACANCIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Bates Motel 12 rooms, 12 vacancies. (Psycho; writing credit: Joseph Stefano)
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Domain	Title
Books	Brent Cross Shopping Centre impact study : preliminary analysis of shop vacancies and changes in NW London, 1971-76 (reference) No Vacancies in Hell (reference) Oversight of the implementation of the Vacancies Act : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, on S. 1764 ... March 18, 1998 (reference) Structural imbalance in the Australian labour market : a study of The relationship between unemployment and unfilled vacancies for the period 1952-1978 (reference) The dynamics of unemployment and vacancies on regional labour markets (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Pennsylvania Education Vacancies (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Author	Quotation
Horace Mann	Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
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Author	Date	Quotation
US Constitution	1791	Clause 4: When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. (reference)
Amendment to US Constitution	1795-2035	When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The method of filling vacancies and other similar questions may be determined by the Governing Body subject to the approval of the Conference. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	First look out for worms, and supply vacancies by planting anew.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Approximately 1,000 undergraduates are enrolled in dentistry courses at these institutions and around 180 graduate each year. Equipment companies often have a role in assisting dental graduates find employment, as their sales representatives frequently become aware of job vacancies as a result of their regular contact with practitioners in the field. (references)
		According to a report in late 1998, market sources indicated that the value of new tenders being issued had declined by at least a half. Together with overbuilding, which has led to vacancies in commercial and residential buildings, decreased revenues have been responsible for a letup in the breakneck pace of construction in the UAE. According to market sources, the architecture/construction/engineering services market is following the trend. (references)
Children	Iraq	Sources in the opposition report that the army found it difficult to recruit enough children to fill all of the vacancies in the program. (references)
	Brazil	A 1991 law stipulates that all businesses with over 200 employees must reserve 2 percent of their vacancies for persons with disabilities. (references)
Economic History	Taiwan	Ministerial agencies are required to set aside 3 percent of their budget to create temporary job vacancies. (references)
Human Rights	Philippines	Vacancies in Mindanao and other poorer provinces particularly are unattractive to many jurists. (references)
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	He filled 5 existing vacancies during the year and plans to increase the staff by 13 new guards. (references)
	China	It also announced that it would select candidates for some 7,200 vacancies through a system of national examinations. (references)
Political Rights	Bosnia and Herzegovina	The lack of a quorum caused by the vacancies also prevented the selection of Croat members of the national-level House of Peoples. (references)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Other than the vacancies in the Federation House of Peoples, all other results of the November 2000 general elections were eventually implemented. (references)
Worker Rights	Tanzania	The Employment Services Promotion Act provides for the creation of a facility to promote employment by creating self-employment opportunities, allows the Government to collect reliable data and information on vacancies for the unemployed, and facilitates employment with other agencies and private sector. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	A realistic and practical attack on the emergency will require aggressive action by local governments, with Federal aid, to exploit all opportunities and to give the veterans as far as possible first chance at vacancies.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Today there are large number of vacancies in the federal courts.
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"VACANCIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.47% of the time. "VACANCIES" is used about 459 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	98.47%	452	12,885
Noun (proper)	1.53%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	459	N/A

Expressions using "VACANCIES": fill up staff vacancies ♦ no vacancies ♦ unfilled vacancies. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "VACANCIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		marr dikë në vend vakant (fill up staff vacancies). (various references)

Chinese		空位 (vacancy). (various references)

Czech		vyplnit volná místa (fill up staff vacancies). (various references)

Danish		ubesatte stillinger (unfilled vacancies), klatring af kantdislokationer er kan mulig takket vaere punktfejl i gitterstrukturen, der kan vaere vakancer eller indskudsatomer (the diffusion of edge dislocations is due to point imperfections, which may be interstitials or vacancies), kation-vacancerne udgoer lO% af kationgitterpladserne (the cation vacancies occupy l0 ( of the cation lattice sites )), Europæisk system til formidling af udbud og efterspørgsel på arbejdsmarkedet (European System for the International Clearing of Vacancies and Applications for Employment), de tomme jern-gitterpladser bliver hurtigt resorberet da FeO let deformeres plastisk (plastic deformation of the protoxide being an easy matter, the vacancies in the iron are readily resorbed). (various references)

Dutch		vacatures waarin niet wordt voorzien (unfilled vacancies), Vacatureblad (Vacancies Bulletin), Nationale Vacaturebank (National Vacancies Data Bank), Europees systeem voor de mededeling van de voor internationale arbeidsbemiddeling geregistreerde aanbiedingen van en aanvragen om werk (European System for the International Clearing of Vacancies and Applications for Employment), de vacatures in het ijzer worden gemakkelijk geresorbeerd, daar het ferro-oxide snel plastisch vervormt (plastic deformation of the protoxide being an easy matter, the vacancies in the iron are readily resorbed), de diffusiebeweging van ranodislocaties kan plaats vinden doordat puntvormige roosterfouten ontstaan, die interstiteel kun l45 E V nen zijn of uit vacatures kunnen bestaan (the diffusion of edge dislocations is due to point imperfections, which may be interstitials or vacancies). (various references)

Finnish		vakanssi (Schottky defect, the diffusion of edge dislocations is due to point imperfections, vacancy, which may be interstitials or vacancies), välisija-atomi (the diffusion of edge dislocations is due to point imperfections, which may be interstitials or vacancies), särmädislokaatio (edge dislocation, Taylor-Orowan dislocation, the diffusion of edge dislocations is due to point imperfections, which may be interstitials or vacancies), raudan vakanssi (plastic deformation of the protoxide being an easy matter, the vacancies in the iron are readily resorbed), pistemäinen hilavirhe (the diffusion of edge dislocations is due to point imperfections, which may be interstitials or vacancies). (various references)

French		Système européen de diffusion des offres et des demandes d'emploi enregistrées en compensation internationale (European System for the International Clearing of Vacancies and Applications for Employment), SEDOC (European System for the International Clearing of Vacancies and Applications for Employment), offres d'emploi non satisfaites (unfilled vacancies, unfilled vacancy, vacancy), Nouvelle Application Décentralisée de l'Information sur les Avis de vacance (News About the DGs'Internal Vacancies), NADIA (News About the DGs'Internal Vacancies), les lacunes de fer sont facilement résorbées, car la déformation plastique du protoxyde est facile (the vacancies in the iron are readily resorbed), la diffusion des dislocations-coins fait appel � la création de défauts ponctuels, Qui yeuvent être des interstitiels du ou des lacunes (which may be interstitials or vacancies), complet (no vacancies), Bulletin des vacances d'emplois (Vacancies Bulletin), Banque nationale des vacances d'emplois (National Vacancies Data Bank). (various references)

German		stellenangebote, Lücken (gaps, hiatuses, openings). (various references)

Greek		κενές θέσεις απασχόλησης (unfilled vacancies), η ύπαρξη σημειακών ατελειών πλέγματος,που προέρχεται από άτομο σε ενδιάμεση θέση του πλέγματος ή από οπές,είναι προϋπόθεση για τη διάχυση � (the diffusion of edge dislocations is due to point imperfections, which may be interstitials or vacancies), οι οπές σιδήρου εύκολα αφομοιώνονται γιατί η πλαστική παραμόρφωση του πρωτοξειδίου είναι εύκολη (plastic deformation of the protoxide being an easy matter, the vacancies in the iron are readily resorbed), θέσεις απασχόλησης που δεν έχουν πληρωθεί (unfilled vacancies). (various references)

Hungarian		kiadó szobák. (various references)

Italian		Sistema europeo di diffusione delle offerte e domande di lavoro registrate in compensazione internazionale (European System for the International Clearing of Vacancies and Applications for Employment), offerte di lavoro non soddisfatte (unfilled vacancies), le lacune del ferro sono facilmente riassorbite, essendo facile deformazione plastica del protossido (plastic deformation of the protoxide being an easy matter, the vacancies in the iron are readily resorbed), la diffusione delle dislocazioni a cuneo si compie grazie alla creazione di diffetti reticolari, che possono essere interstiziali o vacanze reticolari (the diffusion of edge dislocations is due to point imperfections, which may be interstitials or vacancies). (various references)

Korean		공석 (vacancy). (various references)

Pig Latin		acanciesvay.(various references)

Portuguese		vagas (surge). (various references)

Russian		укомплектовывать (complete, fill up staff vacancies). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		popuniti upražnjena radna mesta (fill up staff vacancies). (various references)

Spanish		vacantes. (various references)

Swedish		anställa personal (fill up staff vacancies). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"VACANCIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vagacies, vancancies. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "VACANCIES" (pronounced vā"kunsēz)
5	-u n s ē z	agencies, competencies, constituencies, contingencies, currencies, deficiencies, delinquencies, dependencies, discrepancies, efficiencies, emergencies, excellencies, exigencies, expectancies, frequencies, inefficiencies, insolvencies, insurgencies, malignancies, pregnancies, presidencies, redundancies, tendencies, transparencies.
4	-n s ē z	fancies, inconsistencies, residencies.
3	-s ē z	accuracies, archdiocese, autopsies, bankruptcies, biopsies, bureaucracies, candidacies, conspiracies, controversies, courtesies, crises, cruces, delicacies, democracies, diagnoses, embassies, epilepsies, fallacies, fantasies, galaxies, gypsies, inaccuracies, inadequacies, intricacies, jealousies, legacies, maxis, mercies, misdiagnoses, nazis, neuroses, oases, patsies, pharmacies, policies, posses, privacies, prognoses, prophecies, prostheses, proxies, taxis, theses.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-n-s-v"
	-1 letter: vaccinas, vaccines.
	-2 letters: vaccina, vaccine.
	-3 letters: avians, canvas, caseic, casein, cavies, incase, naives, navies, savine, scenic, siccan, vesica, vincas.
	-4 letters: acnes, aecia, anise, ansae, avens, avian, cacas, caeca, cains, canes, caves, cavie, cines, naevi, naive, naves, saice, savin, scena, since, vanes, veins, vices, vinas, vinca, vines.
	-5 letters: aces, acne, ains, anas, anes, anis, ansa, asci, asea, aves, caca, cain, cane, cans, casa, case, cave, ceca, cine, ices, nave, nevi, nice, sain, sane, save, scan, sice, sine, vacs, vain, vane, vans, vasa, vase, vein, vena, vice, vies, vina, vine, visa, vise.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-n-s-v"
	+1 letter: vaccinates.
	+2 letters: covariances, vicariances.
	+3 letters: revaccinates.
	+4 letters: clairvoyances, coacervations.
	+5 letters: revaccinations.
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