| 单词 | vacant |
| 释义 | vacant (veɪkənt ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 If something is vacant, it is not being used by anyone. Half way down the coach was a vacant seat. In every major city there are more vacant buildings than there are homeless people. 2. adjective B2 If a job or position is vacant, no one is doing it or in it at present, and people can apply for it. A number of senior people were regarded as likely to occupy the now vacant post. The post of chairperson has been vacant for some time. Synonyms: unfilled, unoccupied 3. adjective A vacant look or expression is one that suggests that someone does not understand something or that they are not thinking about anything in particular. She had a kind of vacant look on her face. Synonyms: blank, vague, dreamy, dreaming vacantly adverb [ADVERB after verb] He looked vacantly out of the window. Collocations: vacant chair The reality was a cup of tea ordered at the bar and a fight to find a vacant chair to sit down. Times, Sunday Times His heavy absence, which dominated this year's prizegiving, was marked by the vacant chair. Times, Sunday Times She insists that he take the last vacant chair. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If the vacant chairs are full, people wishing to speak may come forward and stand in a line behind the rotating seats. Christianity Today There were so many suddenly vacant chairs to be filled. The Times Literary Supplement The revamped branch would incorporate a vacant shop next door, which would have had a 65in television screen in the front window, and two cash machines outside, plus another inside. Times, Sunday Times The council has given vacant shops in a covered space over to arts and other projects. Times, Sunday Times Presumably whoever came up with this crass idea assumes all these vacant shops will instead be filled by greengrocers selling organic fruit and vegetables. Times, Sunday Times They are less competitive than property taxes in other countries, distort occupancy costs and lead to vacant shops. Times, Sunday Times On the same high street were four vacant shops. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 有空缺的 Japanese: 空いている |
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