Category:Vacancy

Va"can*cy, n.; pl. Vacancies. Etym: [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 vacancy shak.

(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. Shak. 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.