Definition of vacant in English:

vacant

adjective ˈveɪk(ə)ntˈveɪkənt

1(of a place) not occupied; empty.
40 per cent of the offices are still vacant
Example sentencesExamples
- Enormous numbers of vacant units could be occupied immediately by families with these housing vouchers.
- The man slowly pulled his vehicle into the now vacant space.
- People have begun occupying vacant land.
- The site was previously occupied by a vacant detached bungalow.
- Over five years ago it had decided to sell its farms when they fell vacant.
- This ward has the most vacant lots in the city… about 600.
- She sat down on a vacant plastic chair, rolling her sore shoulders backwards.
- Set amid a cobbled row of upmarket mews flats, he has made the most of a vacant site to create a pair of light, spacious executive homes that blend with their historic surroundings.
- She breezes in and sits in the vacant chair on my right.
- There was one vacant place in the disabled parking area.
- There was even a vacant space next to my car when I left it.
- The place has been vacant for a year.
- Chris plopped into a vacant patio chair, shielding his eyes from the sun.
- There is only one vacant house in the area.
- The vacuum left by vacant land is a powerful pull factor for new developments.
- The funding will help to improve business premises, bringing vacant or under-used floorspace back into use and assist new-build projects.
- There were no vehicles around; the place was vacant except for a forklift and some stacked wooden crates.
- The site is currently vacant and is used for environmental monitoring to ensure the former refuse site next door is not contaminating surrounding land.
- We were negotiating to buy property a couple of miles away when four blocks of vacant land became available across the street from my other buildings.
Synonyms
empty, unoccupied, unfilled, free, available, not in use, unused, unengaged, uninhabited, untenanted, tenantless, to let, for sale, on the market, abandoned, deserted
informal up for grabs
1. 1.1 (of a position or employment) not filled.
  the President resigned and the post was left vacant
  Example sentencesExamples
  We anticipate a severe nursing shortage in the next few years and presently do not have enough lab or x-ray techs to fill vacant positions.
  The council adopted a policy of merging schools where the position of headteacher at one falls vacant.
  Three months later the vacant position at the school has still not been filled and it seems there is no sign of the position being filled in the immediate future.
  Most hospitals are scrambling like crazy to try to fill vacant positions.
  Robinson encourages him to apply for the deputy news editor position currently vacant at the paper.
  They also demanded that the government fill all vacant positions and issue employees with at least four sets of uniforms.
  It decided against filling the vacant post and the position won't be reviewed until later in the year.
  More than one in 12 social worker posts are currently vacant.
  In addition to lay-offs, another 150 vacant positions will not be filled.
  It will be responsible for people's postings, promotions and assisting in filling vacant positions.
  Despite the economic slowdown, there is still a need for overseas workers to fill positions that remain vacant in many industries.
  Bradford on Avon police has one special constable, a voluntary, part time position, but is planning to advertise for more people to fill vacant positions.
  Already-strapped budgets were being cut further and all vacant positions were frozen, leaving a staffing shortage throughout campus.
  One major concern for the depots was the amount of time required to fill vacant positions.
  The result has been posts being left vacant for months as the University finds it hard to fill them.
  The post fell vacant following Stuart Gulliver's decision to take up a new academic position.
  There were nine candidates for the vacant position.
  For a fraction of the cost of newspaper ads, companies can fill their vacant positions within days.
  A $15 million deficit this year resulted in a freeze on filling vacant positions and buying office and classroom supplies.
  Church members are more aware of volunteer opportunities, and vacant positions are being filled.
2Having or showing no intelligence or interest.
a vacant stare
Example sentencesExamples
- Blake gazed at the both of them then, his face becoming more vacant.
- A couple seconds passed, and then his confused face turned vacant, empty.
- As he left, he cast one last, longing glance in her direction, receiving nothing in exchange but the same cold, vacant stare from her.
- Her vacant, doe-eyed stare into the camera shows little of the star quality that would make her a Hollywood legend.
- In a doorway, three young boys stare out with vacant eyes, inhaling deeply from glass jars filled with glue or gasoline.
- He was strangely giggling but his eyes remained vacant.
- She fixes those beady eyes on me, and I give her my best vacant stare back.
- He can't see my face, hasn't noticed my largely vacant expression.
- He was carrying a plastic shopping bag and had a fairly benign, but vacant, expression on his face.
- He stared back with a vacant expression and his mouth slightly ajar.
- He brushed a hand through his hair, his vacant blue eyes staring off to the side.
- An endless parade of hungry children with vacant expressions overwhelmed them.
- Twenty-four pairs of glossy, vacant eyes stared back up at me and I felt my self-confidence begin to falter.
- He sits in an old rocking chair on a porch, a guitar on his knee and a vacant stare on his face.
- As our flashlights shone across his face, he looked up with a lifeless, vacant expression.
- She just looked vacant, lost and empty; it was awful.
- His vacant eyes lifted to stare out into the distance.
- His eyes, vacant and glassy, stared silently at the sky.
- His eyes were open but vacant, staring at something that wasn't even there.
- She noticed Vincent's vacant look as he stared down at the river.
Synonyms
blank, expressionless, deadpan, inscrutable, inexpressive, poker-faced, emotionless, impassive, absent, absent-minded, uninterested, vacuous, empty, glassy, stony, wooden, motionless, lifeless, inanimate
empty-headed, unintelligent, without thought, brainless, dense, dull-witted, thick, vacuous, inane, stupid
informal brain-dead

Derivatives

vacantly

adverb ˈveɪk(ə)ntli

In Oban's featureless tea rooms, elderly coach-trippers write cheerful messages on damp postcards or stare vacantly at cars disembarking from the ferries.
Example sentencesExamples
- Glassy-eyed voters will nod their heads vacantly.
- Tanya shrugged vacantly, and changed the subject.
- I stare vacantly at my computer, not really seeing anything.
- I finished what I was doing and went to join the jollity, sitting in a corner, smiling vacantly.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin vacant- 'remaining empty', from the verb vacare.

Definition of vacant in US English:

vacant

adjectiveˈvākəntˈveɪkənt

1(of premises) having no fixtures, furniture, or inhabitants; empty.
Compare with unoccupied (sense 1 of the adjective)
Example sentencesExamples
- The house was listed for sale and was left vacant for approximately ten months before the plaintiff offered to purchase the house in April of 1991.
- Today over 500 buildings, 2,500 residential units and 250 storefronts stand vacant.
- Police say one other burned building was vacant and three were occupied.
- They moved there four years ago when the old village bakery became vacant.
- The family escaped to a nearby vacant house but the fires continued.
- We do not need another retail complex, just look at the number of vacant premises around the centre.
- This assumes the premises were left vacant in the condition required by the lease.
- Up to £2,000 is available for new businesses occupying vacant premises and employing at least one member of staff.
- Slowly it opened revealing an empty vacant room and a floor stripped of the carpet.
- The demolition of the vacant shop premises in the estate was a major achievement for the Development Committee.
- The room in front of her lies vacant, lifeless but grandly lighted.
- He does have a point about the house being left vacant for months.
- The door led into an empty shop, vacant for the past two months since the little card shop moved downtown.
- In the middle is a small boarded-up chapel that has been vacant for years.
- Staff and pupils at the school are to move to the new £15m Endeavour High School for the autumn term, leaving the premises vacant.
- The company closed its doors last summer and its premises have been vacant for nine months.
- While we were in Sao Paulo, 5,000 homeless people led by the Union of Housing Movements occupied six vacant buildings in the city.
- All vacant premises between The Medical Hall on Greencastle Street and McAnulty's Bar on Newry Street will be flattened.
- Until last winter, the brown structure was a vacant building.
- Leaving it vacant would result in it almost certainly being vandalised.
Synonyms
empty, unoccupied, unfilled, free, available, not in use, unused, unengaged, uninhabited, untenanted, tenantless, to let, for sale, on the market, abandoned, deserted
1. 1.1 (of a position or office) not filled.
  the president resigned and the post was left vacant
  Example sentencesExamples
  The post fell vacant following Stuart Gulliver's decision to take up a new academic position.
  More than one in 12 social worker posts are currently vacant.
  The council adopted a policy of merging schools where the position of headteacher at one falls vacant.
  Robinson encourages him to apply for the deputy news editor position currently vacant at the paper.
  They also demanded that the government fill all vacant positions and issue employees with at least four sets of uniforms.
  One major concern for the depots was the amount of time required to fill vacant positions.
  Church members are more aware of volunteer opportunities, and vacant positions are being filled.
  Three months later the vacant position at the school has still not been filled and it seems there is no sign of the position being filled in the immediate future.
  In addition to lay-offs, another 150 vacant positions will not be filled.
  Already-strapped budgets were being cut further and all vacant positions were frozen, leaving a staffing shortage throughout campus.
  Bradford on Avon police has one special constable, a voluntary, part time position, but is planning to advertise for more people to fill vacant positions.
  Most hospitals are scrambling like crazy to try to fill vacant positions.
  We anticipate a severe nursing shortage in the next few years and presently do not have enough lab or x-ray techs to fill vacant positions.
  Despite the economic slowdown, there is still a need for overseas workers to fill positions that remain vacant in many industries.
  A $15 million deficit this year resulted in a freeze on filling vacant positions and buying office and classroom supplies.
  It will be responsible for people's postings, promotions and assisting in filling vacant positions.
  The result has been posts being left vacant for months as the University finds it hard to fill them.
  For a fraction of the cost of newspaper ads, companies can fill their vacant positions within days.
  There were nine candidates for the vacant position.
  It decided against filling the vacant post and the position won't be reviewed until later in the year.
2. 1.2 (of a person or their expression) having or showing no intelligence or interest.
  a vacant stare
  Example sentencesExamples
  She fixes those beady eyes on me, and I give her my best vacant stare back.
  His vacant eyes lifted to stare out into the distance.
  An endless parade of hungry children with vacant expressions overwhelmed them.
  Her vacant, doe-eyed stare into the camera shows little of the star quality that would make her a Hollywood legend.
  His eyes, vacant and glassy, stared silently at the sky.
  As he left, he cast one last, longing glance in her direction, receiving nothing in exchange but the same cold, vacant stare from her.
  As our flashlights shone across his face, he looked up with a lifeless, vacant expression.
  He can't see my face, hasn't noticed my largely vacant expression.
  In a doorway, three young boys stare out with vacant eyes, inhaling deeply from glass jars filled with glue or gasoline.
  She just looked vacant, lost and empty; it was awful.
  His eyes were open but vacant, staring at something that wasn't even there.
  A couple seconds passed, and then his confused face turned vacant, empty.
  Blake gazed at the both of them then, his face becoming more vacant.
  Twenty-four pairs of glossy, vacant eyes stared back up at me and I felt my self-confidence begin to falter.
  He was strangely giggling but his eyes remained vacant.
  She noticed Vincent's vacant look as he stared down at the river.
  He brushed a hand through his hair, his vacant blue eyes staring off to the side.
  He sits in an old rocking chair on a porch, a guitar on his knee and a vacant stare on his face.
  He stared back with a vacant expression and his mouth slightly ajar.
  He was carrying a plastic shopping bag and had a fairly benign, but vacant, expression on his face.
  Synonyms
  blank, expressionless, deadpan, inscrutable, inexpressive, poker-faced, emotionless, impassive, absent, absent-minded, uninterested, vacuous, empty, glassy, stony, wooden, motionless, lifeless, inanimate
  empty-headed, unintelligent, without thought, brainless, dense, dull-witted, thick, vacuous, inane, stupid

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin vacant- ‘remaining empty’, from the verb vacare.

单词	vacant
释义	Definition of vacant in English: vacant adjective ˈveɪk(ə)ntˈveɪkənt 1(of a place) not occupied; empty. 40 per cent of the offices are still vacant Example sentencesExamples Enormous numbers of vacant units could be occupied immediately by families with these housing vouchers. The man slowly pulled his vehicle into the now vacant space. People have begun occupying vacant land. The site was previously occupied by a vacant detached bungalow. Over five years ago it had decided to sell its farms when they fell vacant. This ward has the most vacant lots in the city… about 600. She sat down on a vacant plastic chair, rolling her sore shoulders backwards. Set amid a cobbled row of upmarket mews flats, he has made the most of a vacant site to create a pair of light, spacious executive homes that blend with their historic surroundings. She breezes in and sits in the vacant chair on my right. There was one vacant place in the disabled parking area. There was even a vacant space next to my car when I left it. The place has been vacant for a year. Chris plopped into a vacant patio chair, shielding his eyes from the sun. There is only one vacant house in the area. The vacuum left by vacant land is a powerful pull factor for new developments. The funding will help to improve business premises, bringing vacant or under-used floorspace back into use and assist new-build projects. There were no vehicles around; the place was vacant except for a forklift and some stacked wooden crates. The site is currently vacant and is used for environmental monitoring to ensure the former refuse site next door is not contaminating surrounding land. We were negotiating to buy property a couple of miles away when four blocks of vacant land became available across the street from my other buildings. Synonyms empty, unoccupied, unfilled, free, available, not in use, unused, unengaged, uninhabited, untenanted, tenantless, to let, for sale, on the market, abandoned, deserted informal up for grabs 1.1 (of a position or employment) not filled. the President resigned and the post was left vacant Example sentencesExamples We anticipate a severe nursing shortage in the next few years and presently do not have enough lab or x-ray techs to fill vacant positions. The council adopted a policy of merging schools where the position of headteacher at one falls vacant. Three months later the vacant position at the school has still not been filled and it seems there is no sign of the position being filled in the immediate future. Most hospitals are scrambling like crazy to try to fill vacant positions. Robinson encourages him to apply for the deputy news editor position currently vacant at the paper. They also demanded that the government fill all vacant positions and issue employees with at least four sets of uniforms. It decided against filling the vacant post and the position won't be reviewed until later in the year. More than one in 12 social worker posts are currently vacant. In addition to lay-offs, another 150 vacant positions will not be filled. It will be responsible for people's postings, promotions and assisting in filling vacant positions. Despite the economic slowdown, there is still a need for overseas workers to fill positions that remain vacant in many industries. Bradford on Avon police has one special constable, a voluntary, part time position, but is planning to advertise for more people to fill vacant positions. Already-strapped budgets were being cut further and all vacant positions were frozen, leaving a staffing shortage throughout campus. One major concern for the depots was the amount of time required to fill vacant positions. The result has been posts being left vacant for months as the University finds it hard to fill them. The post fell vacant following Stuart Gulliver's decision to take up a new academic position. There were nine candidates for the vacant position. For a fraction of the cost of newspaper ads, companies can fill their vacant positions within days. A $15 million deficit this year resulted in a freeze on filling vacant positions and buying office and classroom supplies. Church members are more aware of volunteer opportunities, and vacant positions are being filled. 2Having or showing no intelligence or interest. a vacant stare Example sentencesExamples Blake gazed at the both of them then, his face becoming more vacant. A couple seconds passed, and then his confused face turned vacant, empty. As he left, he cast one last, longing glance in her direction, receiving nothing in exchange but the same cold, vacant stare from her. Her vacant, doe-eyed stare into the camera shows little of the star quality that would make her a Hollywood legend. In a doorway, three young boys stare out with vacant eyes, inhaling deeply from glass jars filled with glue or gasoline. He was strangely giggling but his eyes remained vacant. She fixes those beady eyes on me, and I give her my best vacant stare back. He can't see my face, hasn't noticed my largely vacant expression. He was carrying a plastic shopping bag and had a fairly benign, but vacant, expression on his face. He stared back with a vacant expression and his mouth slightly ajar. He brushed a hand through his hair, his vacant blue eyes staring off to the side. An endless parade of hungry children with vacant expressions overwhelmed them. Twenty-four pairs of glossy, vacant eyes stared back up at me and I felt my self-confidence begin to falter. He sits in an old rocking chair on a porch, a guitar on his knee and a vacant stare on his face. As our flashlights shone across his face, he looked up with a lifeless, vacant expression. She just looked vacant, lost and empty; it was awful. His vacant eyes lifted to stare out into the distance. His eyes, vacant and glassy, stared silently at the sky. His eyes were open but vacant, staring at something that wasn't even there. She noticed Vincent's vacant look as he stared down at the river. Synonyms blank, expressionless, deadpan, inscrutable, inexpressive, poker-faced, emotionless, impassive, absent, absent-minded, uninterested, vacuous, empty, glassy, stony, wooden, motionless, lifeless, inanimate empty-headed, unintelligent, without thought, brainless, dense, dull-witted, thick, vacuous, inane, stupid informal brain-dead Derivatives vacantly adverb ˈveɪk(ə)ntli In Oban's featureless tea rooms, elderly coach-trippers write cheerful messages on damp postcards or stare vacantly at cars disembarking from the ferries. Example sentencesExamples Glassy-eyed voters will nod their heads vacantly. Tanya shrugged vacantly, and changed the subject. I stare vacantly at my computer, not really seeing anything. I finished what I was doing and went to join the jollity, sitting in a corner, smiling vacantly. Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin vacant- 'remaining empty', from the verb vacare. Definition of vacant in US English: vacant adjectiveˈvākəntˈveɪkənt 1(of premises) having no fixtures, furniture, or inhabitants; empty. Compare with unoccupied (sense 1 of the adjective) Example sentencesExamples The house was listed for sale and was left vacant for approximately ten months before the plaintiff offered to purchase the house in April of 1991. Today over 500 buildings, 2,500 residential units and 250 storefronts stand vacant. Police say one other burned building was vacant and three were occupied. They moved there four years ago when the old village bakery became vacant. The family escaped to a nearby vacant house but the fires continued. We do not need another retail complex, just look at the number of vacant premises around the centre. This assumes the premises were left vacant in the condition required by the lease. Up to £2,000 is available for new businesses occupying vacant premises and employing at least one member of staff. Slowly it opened revealing an empty vacant room and a floor stripped of the carpet. The demolition of the vacant shop premises in the estate was a major achievement for the Development Committee. The room in front of her lies vacant, lifeless but grandly lighted. He does have a point about the house being left vacant for months. The door led into an empty shop, vacant for the past two months since the little card shop moved downtown. In the middle is a small boarded-up chapel that has been vacant for years. Staff and pupils at the school are to move to the new £15m Endeavour High School for the autumn term, leaving the premises vacant. The company closed its doors last summer and its premises have been vacant for nine months. While we were in Sao Paulo, 5,000 homeless people led by the Union of Housing Movements occupied six vacant buildings in the city. All vacant premises between The Medical Hall on Greencastle Street and McAnulty's Bar on Newry Street will be flattened. Until last winter, the brown structure was a vacant building. Leaving it vacant would result in it almost certainly being vandalised. Synonyms empty, unoccupied, unfilled, free, available, not in use, unused, unengaged, uninhabited, untenanted, tenantless, to let, for sale, on the market, abandoned, deserted 1.1 (of a position or office) not filled. the president resigned and the post was left vacant Example sentencesExamples The post fell vacant following Stuart Gulliver's decision to take up a new academic position. More than one in 12 social worker posts are currently vacant. The council adopted a policy of merging schools where the position of headteacher at one falls vacant. Robinson encourages him to apply for the deputy news editor position currently vacant at the paper. They also demanded that the government fill all vacant positions and issue employees with at least four sets of uniforms. One major concern for the depots was the amount of time required to fill vacant positions. Church members are more aware of volunteer opportunities, and vacant positions are being filled. Three months later the vacant position at the school has still not been filled and it seems there is no sign of the position being filled in the immediate future. In addition to lay-offs, another 150 vacant positions will not be filled. Already-strapped budgets were being cut further and all vacant positions were frozen, leaving a staffing shortage throughout campus. Bradford on Avon police has one special constable, a voluntary, part time position, but is planning to advertise for more people to fill vacant positions. Most hospitals are scrambling like crazy to try to fill vacant positions. We anticipate a severe nursing shortage in the next few years and presently do not have enough lab or x-ray techs to fill vacant positions. Despite the economic slowdown, there is still a need for overseas workers to fill positions that remain vacant in many industries. A $15 million deficit this year resulted in a freeze on filling vacant positions and buying office and classroom supplies. It will be responsible for people's postings, promotions and assisting in filling vacant positions. The result has been posts being left vacant for months as the University finds it hard to fill them. For a fraction of the cost of newspaper ads, companies can fill their vacant positions within days. There were nine candidates for the vacant position. It decided against filling the vacant post and the position won't be reviewed until later in the year. 1.2 (of a person or their expression) having or showing no intelligence or interest. a vacant stare Example sentencesExamples She fixes those beady eyes on me, and I give her my best vacant stare back. His vacant eyes lifted to stare out into the distance. An endless parade of hungry children with vacant expressions overwhelmed them. Her vacant, doe-eyed stare into the camera shows little of the star quality that would make her a Hollywood legend. His eyes, vacant and glassy, stared silently at the sky. As he left, he cast one last, longing glance in her direction, receiving nothing in exchange but the same cold, vacant stare from her. As our flashlights shone across his face, he looked up with a lifeless, vacant expression. He can't see my face, hasn't noticed my largely vacant expression. In a doorway, three young boys stare out with vacant eyes, inhaling deeply from glass jars filled with glue or gasoline. She just looked vacant, lost and empty; it was awful. His eyes were open but vacant, staring at something that wasn't even there. A couple seconds passed, and then his confused face turned vacant, empty. Blake gazed at the both of them then, his face becoming more vacant. Twenty-four pairs of glossy, vacant eyes stared back up at me and I felt my self-confidence begin to falter. He was strangely giggling but his eyes remained vacant. She noticed Vincent's vacant look as he stared down at the river. He brushed a hand through his hair, his vacant blue eyes staring off to the side. He sits in an old rocking chair on a porch, a guitar on his knee and a vacant stare on his face. He stared back with a vacant expression and his mouth slightly ajar. He was carrying a plastic shopping bag and had a fairly benign, but vacant, expression on his face. Synonyms blank, expressionless, deadpan, inscrutable, inexpressive, poker-faced, emotionless, impassive, absent, absent-minded, uninterested, vacuous, empty, glassy, stony, wooden, motionless, lifeless, inanimate empty-headed, unintelligent, without thought, brainless, dense, dull-witted, thick, vacuous, inane, stupid Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin vacant- ‘remaining empty’, from the verb vacare.
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