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单词 sits vac
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sits vacn.

Brit. /ˌsɪts ˈvak/, U.S. /ˌsɪts ˈvæk/, Irish English /ˌsɪts ˈvæk/
Forms:

α. 1900s– sits vac, 1900s– sits. vac. (with points).

β. 1900s– sit vac, 1900s– sit. vac. (with points).

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: situations vacant n. at situation n. Compounds.
Etymology: Shortened < situations vacant n. at situation n. Compounds, originally as a graphic abbreviation. Compare earlier sit n.2
British and Irish English.
Job vacancies, as advertised in a newspaper; (hence also) a newspaper column or section that lists job vacancies. Also occasionally: (in form sit vac) a job vacancy. Cf. situation n. 9b.
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society > occupation and work > position or job > [noun]
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sits vac1945
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1945 Irish Times 12 Mar. 4/3 Works Manager (32).., seeks position with Dublin firm... Box H 1094. Sits vac.
1969 Guardian 29 July 4/8 Asians.., with the sort of skills that the ‘Sits vac’ columns of British newspapers are clamouring for—nurses, motor mechanics, turners, secretaries.
1970 Guardian 14 Nov. 9/2 (heading) ‘I felt I could do the job.’..Peter Terson on the Sit. Vac. he didn't fill.
1975 Listener 8 May 609/3 Raking through the sits. vac., John Timpson..reported an advertisement in a Devon local paper for a person ‘to move Earth—about two days' work’.
2001 J. Lawton Bluffing Mr. Churchill xvii. He was putting rings round items in the sits vac column.
2006 Guardian (Nexis) 27 May (Work section) 3 Trawling through the sits vac I chanced upon one for someone with lots of horticultural PR experience.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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