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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024va•can•cy /ˈveɪkənsi/USA pronunciation n., pl. -cies. - [uncountable] the state of being vacant;
emptiness. - a vacant or unoccupied place, esp. one for rent, as a hotel room or an apartment:[countable]several vacancies listed in the paper.
- an unoccupied position or office:[countable]We have a vacancy for PTA president.
See -vac-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024va•can•cy (vā′kən sē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -cies. - the state of being vacant;
emptiness. - a vacant, empty, or unoccupied place, as untenanted lodgings or offices:This building still has no vacancies.
- a gap;
opening;
breach. - an unoccupied position or office:a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
- lack of thought or intelligence;
vacuity:a look of utter vacancy. - [Crystall.](in a crystal) an imperfection resulting from an unoccupied lattice position. Cf. interstitial (def. 3).
- [Archaic.]absence of activity;
idleness.
- Medieval Latin vacantia. See vacant, -ancy
- 1570–80
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: vacancy /ˈveɪkənsɪ/ n ( pl -cies)- the state or condition of being vacant or unoccupied; emptiness
- an unoccupied post or office: we have a vacancy in the accounts department
- an unoccupied room in a boarding house, hotel, etc: put the "No Vacancies" sign in the window
- lack of thought or intelligent awareness; inanity
- a defect in a crystalline solid caused by the absence of an atom, ion, or molecule from its position in the crystal lattice
- obsolete idleness or a period spent in idleness
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