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Definitions: Vacancy |
VacancyNoun1. Being unoccupied. 2. An empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vacancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Vacancy \Va"can*cy\, noun; plural Vacancies. [Compare to the French expression vacance.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemistry | A lattice vacancy or missing atom in a crystal lattice. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | Crystal defect consisting of missing atom(s)from the expected lattice position as in a perfect crystal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A point defect in a crystal structure where an atom or ion is missing fromits expected position. Syn:Schottky defect. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| VA | English | Vacancy announcement | Labor |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: VacancySynonyms: emptiness (n), void (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence | Emptiness; Adjective: void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa; exemption; hiatus; (interval); lipotype. |
Imbecility Folly | Noun: want of -intelligence; want of -intellect; shadowness, silliness, foolishness; Adjective: imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence; (unskillfulness). |
Incogitancy | Noun: incogitancy, vacancy, inunderstanding; fatuity; thoughtlessness; (inattention); vacuity. |
Insufficiency | Emptiness, poorness; Adjective:; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; " a beggarly account of empty boxes "; indigence; insolvency; (nonpayment). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vacancy |
| English words defined with "vacancy": Earl marshal of England ♦ Intercessor ♦ Seguestration ♦ trade wind ♦ Vacancies, vacancy rate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vacancy": ASSIGNMENT CLERK ♦ Coal-hod, control rod follower ♦ ELIGIBILITY-AND-OCCUPANCY INTERVIEWER ♦ follower rod ♦ Homeowner vacancy rate, HVS ♦ Inter Rex ♦ KILL ♦ Occupied housing unit ♦ Rental vacancy rate ♦ Schottky defect, Short form ♦ vacancy factor, Vacancy status. (references) |
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Screenplays | Oh can you? Can you explain the valet parking in the drive way?The flashing vacancy sign.. (Family Ties; writing credit: Marissa Garrido; Raimundo Lopes) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vacancy (1999) No Vacancy... No Escape (1994) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Anna Jameson | As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. |
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Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2038 | 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. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | If a vacancy in the Chairmanship or Vice-Chairmanship should occur during the annual period, the Commission shall proceed to a new election for the remainder of the said period. (reference) |
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Economic History | Cote d'Ivoire | According to the constitution, the President of the National Assembly assumes the presidency in the event of a vacancy, and he completes the remainder of the deceased president's term. (references) |
Hong Kong | Due to growing environmental concerns, best prospects in the coming years will also include all indoor air quality products, energy saving devices (air filters, vacancy sensors), frequency inverters, and sensors for CO and CO2 and soft starters. (references) | |
Political Rights | Fiji | After the election, four ethnic Fijian women were appointed to the Cabinet (two as ministers and two as assistant ministers), and another was appointed to fill a vacancy in Parliament. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | KILL, v.t. To create a vacancy without nominating a successor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vacancy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.40% of the time. "Vacancy" is used about 331 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 (singular) | 99.4% | 329 | 15,846 |
| Noun (common) | 0.6% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 331 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vacancy": fill a vacancy ♦ gaze into vacancy ♦ job vacancy ♦ no vacancy ♦ stare into vacancy ♦ vacancy job ♦ vacancy rate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "vacancy": vacancy-sheet, vacancy-wage. | |
Ending with "vacancy": office-vacancy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
job vacancy | 454 |
vacancy | 420 |
uk job vacancy | 57 |
teaching vacancy | 34 |
in job malaysia vacancy | 33 |
illinois teaching vacancy | 31 |
uk it vacancy | 28 |
it sales vacancy | 24 |
teacher vacancy | 24 |
job malaysia vacancy | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vacancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vend pune i lirë, kokëboshësi, boshllëk (blank, clearance, emptiness, gap, hiatus, Lacuna, space, vac, void, white), apartament i lirë. (various references) | |
Arabic | فراغ (air, blank, completion, emptiness, finishing, free time, gap, idleness, inane, inanity, leisure, nothingness, space, spare time, vacuity, vacuum, void), مكان شاغر, خلو (bare), شغور. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | незаета длъжност, празно пространство (room, vacuity, vacuum, void), празно място (gap, space, white), празнота (blankness, chasm, emptiness, idleness, sketchiness, vacuity, vacuum, vanity, void), безделие (idleness, indolence, laziness), бездействие (idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertness, quiescence, quiescency, stagnancy, stagnation), безучастие, липса на идеи, липса на интелигентност, празнина (blank, cavity, gap, hiatus, hollow), непълнота (imperfection, inadequacy, sketchiness), свободно от наематели помещение, незаета служба, незаето място, незастроен парцел, незастроен участък, вакантно място (opening), вакантно служба, разсеяност (absence, absence of mind, absentmindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, distraction, forgetfulness, preoccupation, wool gathering), равнодушие (apathy, disregard, indifference, insusceptibility, listlessness, nonchalance, tepidity, unconcern), липса на мисъл (vacuity). (various references) | |
Chinese | 空缺 , 空位 (Vacancies). (various references) | |
Czech | volno (free, free day, free time, holiday, leisure, off, off day, playtime, vacation), volné místo, prázdnota (emptiness, vacuity, void), prázdno (nothingness, playtime, vacuity, void), neèinnost (idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertia), mezera (blank, breach, break, gap, hiatus, interval, space), bezvýraznost. (various references) | |
Danish | vakance (Schottky defect), Schottky-fejl (Schottky defect), Schottky-defekt (Schottky defect), ledige stillinger (job to be filled, unfilled vacancy), ledige pladser (job to be filled, unfilled vacancy). (various references) | |
Dutch | vacature (Schottky defect, vacant post), vacante plaats (hole, Schottky defect), vacancy, Schottky-defect (Schottky defect), lege plaats, holte (alcove, cave, cavern, cavity, cisterna, den, depth, hole, moulded depth, pore, recess, sheer line depth, space, void), gat (aperture, backside, cave, cavity, core, cored hole, defect electron, dovetail, General Air Traffic, hole, lifting hole, opening, positive hole, puncture, rump, slot). (various references) | |
Farsi | پست بلاتصدی (Vacantness), جا (Berth, Case, Emplacement, House, Lieu, Locality, Location, Lodge, Place, Receptacle, Room, Seat, Site, Situation, Socket, Space, Station, Stead, Vacantness). (various references) | |
Finnish | vakanssi (Schottky defect, the diffusion of edge dislocations is due to point imperfections, which may be interstitials or vacancies). (various references) | |
French | vacance. (various references) | |
German | Leere (bareness, blank, blankness, emptily, emptiness, inaneness, vacantness, vacuity, vacuously, vacuousness, void), Lücke (blank, breach, break, failure, feedthrough, gap, gash, hiatus, hole, interlevel via hole, interrecord gap, lacuna, loophole, opening, plateau, record gap, scuttle, space, tooth space, via, via hole). (various references) | |
Greek | κενό (blank, gap, hiatus, interrecord gap, record gap, vacuity, vacuum, void). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משר" פ וי" (vac), מקום פ וי (vac), וק סי", חלל ריק (emptiness, vacuum), ריקות (emptiness, vac, vacuity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | üresség (blankness, cavity, emptiness, hollowness, platitude, vacuity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lowongan (gap). (various references) | |
Italian | vuoto (bare, blank, blankness, clearing, devoid, emptiness, empty, empty space, expansion space, fail patch, failed patch, failure, frothily, frothy, gap, head space, hollow, poor, shallow, space, ullage, unstocked area, vacant, vacuity, vacuous, vacuum, vide, void), vacanza (holiday, recess, Schottky defect, vacation), spazio vuoto (cavity, gap, interrecord gap, record gap, void), posto vacante - ozio - vuoto, posto vacante (vacant post), offerte di lavoro (job to be filled, unfilled vacancy), lacuna (blank, defect electron, gap, hiatus, hole, lacuna, positive hole, silence), interconnessione fra strati (feedthrough, interlevel via hole, via, via hole), foro di via (feedthrough, interlevel via hole, via, via hole), difetto Schottky (Schottky defect), difetto di Schottky (Schottky defect), camera libera. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 空虚 (emptiness), 空" (airspace, room, room for rent or lease, space), 空き" (room for rent or lease), 空席 (room, vacant seat), " (vacant position), (deficiency, lack). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くうきょ (emptiness), くうせき (room, vacant seat), あきま (room for rent or lease), けつい" (vacant position), けつ (arse, ass, buttocks, decision, deficiency, excellence, lack, mosquito larva, that, vote). (various references) | |
Korean | 공석 (Vacancies). (various references) | |
Manx | staartey follym, post follym, folmidys (vacuity), folmid (bareness, blank, blankness, emptiness, flatness, hollowness, inanity, shallowness, vacuity, vacuum, void, void useless). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acancyvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vazio (addle, bare, blank, blankness, chasm, claptrap, concave, emptiness, empty, flatness, head space, hollow, inanimate, oxidized, ullage, unoccupied, vacuity, vacuous, vacuum, vain, void). (various references) | |
Romanian | vid (blankness, exhausted, inanition, space, vacuum, void), vacanţã (holiday, holidays, vacation), trândãvealã, spaţiu gol (blank, blank space, emptiness, void, void space), post vacant (opening), loc liber (clearance, void), inactivitate (drift, idleness, inactivity), gol (abyss, bald, bare, bare-bodied, barren, blank, blankness, desert, deserted, empty, gap, genuine, hollow, hollowness, inanity, leafless, naked, nakedly, nude, out at, shallow, stripped, uncovered, vacuum, void, waste, windy). (various references) | |
Russian | вакансия (avoidance, opening). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | upražnjeno mesto (opening), praznina (blank, blankness, emptiness, hiatus, inanition, inanity, lacuna, vacuum, void). (various references) | |
Spanish | vacante (empty, free, opening, slot, unoccupied, vacant, vacant post, void). (various references) | |
Swedish | vakans (Schottky defect). (various references) | |
Turkish | tembellik (dalliance, dilatoriness, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, laziness, slackness, sloth, sluggishness, stagnancy, stagnation), işsizlik (unemployment), dalgınlık (absence, absence of mind, absent-mindedness, abstractedness, abstraction, Kef, pensiveness, reverie, thoughtfulness, vacuity, wandering, woolgathering), boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, backlash, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacuity, vacuum, void, voidness), boş yer (empty space, room, void), boş oda (spare room), bön bön bakış, akılsızlık (absurdness, fatuity, fatuousness, imprudence, stupidity, unreason, unwisdom), açıklık (aperture, baldness, berth, clarity, clearance, clearness, definiteness, demonstrativeness, directness, distance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, erectness, evidence, fairness, gap, interstice, lightness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, palpability, patency, perspicuity, plainness, preciseness, publicity, rift, roundness, space, spread, straightforwardness, the open, yard), açık kontenjan. (various references) | |
Ukranian | вакансія (avoidance, opening), незайняте місце, пропуск (chasm, hiatus, non-sequence, omission, out, overlook, skip), порожнеча (blankness, inane). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình trạng trống rỗng khoảng không, tình trạng ngây dại, tình trạng lơ đãng, sự rãnh rỗi sự trống rỗng tâm h"n, chỗ trống sự nh n rỗi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | supervacuitas, vacuitas, vacuitatem, vacuitatis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Vacancy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gvcac, Maconchy, Vasenko. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vacancy" (pronounced vā"kunsē) |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-n-v-y" | |
-3 letters: caca, cavy, cyan, navy. | |
-4 letters: ana, any, ava, can, cay, nay, vac, van. | |
-5 letters: aa, an, ay, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-n-v-y" | |
+5 letters: clairvoyance, volcanically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 63 61 6E 63 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- -.-. .- -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01100011 01100001 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a c a n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0063 0061 006E 0063 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56676967806991 |
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