- vacancy
- noun /ˈveɪkənsi/a) An unoccupied position or job.
Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].
b) An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
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Vacancy — or No Vacancy may refer to: Vacancy (film), a 2007 American horror film Vacancy (EP), an EP by Joseph Arthur Vacancy (economics) or job opening, a position offered by a business that wishes to hire a worker Vacancy (Law Order: Criminal Intent),… … Wikipedia
vacancy — va‧can‧cy [ˈveɪkənsi] noun vacancies PLURALFORM [countable] 1. HUMAN RESOURCES a job that is available for someone to start doing: • We have job vacancies for graduates in engineering and information technology. • A vacancy has arisen … Financial and business terms
Vacancy — Va can*cy, n.; pl. {Vacancies}. [Cf. F. vacance.] [1913 Webster] 1. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. [1913 Webster] All dispositions to idleness or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Vacancy — • A term applied to an office or position devoid of an incumbent, as a vacant benefice, bishopric, or parish Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Vacancy Vacancy … Catholic encyclopedia
Vacancy — es una película de terror norteamericana de 2007 dirigida por Nimród Antal, y protagonizada por Luke Wilson y Kate Beckinsale. También llamada “Hotel sin salida” o “Habitación sin salida”, es un thriller de terror que se adentra en el macabro… … Wikipedia Español
Vacancy — Vacancy. См. Вакансия. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) … Словарь металлургических терминов
vacancy — index access (opening), blank (emptiness) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
vacancy — (n.) c.1600, state of being vacant, from L.L. vacantia, from vacans (see VACANT (Cf. vacant)). Meaning available room at a hotel is recorded from 1953. Related: Vacancies … Etymology dictionary
vacancy — [n] opening abstraction, blankness, desertedness, emptiness, gap, job, lack, opportunity, position, post, room, situation, space, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, void, voidness; concepts 513,516,693 Ant. fill, overflow … New thesaurus
vacancy — ► NOUN (pl. vacancies) 1) an unoccupied position or job. 2) an available room in a hotel, guest house, etc. 3) empty space. 4) lack of intelligence or understanding … English terms dictionary
vacancy — [vā′kən sē] n. pl. vacancies [L vacantia < vacans] 1. the state of being vacant, or empty; emptiness 2. a) empty space b) a vacant space; gap, blank, opening, etc. 3. the state of being empty in mind; lack of intelligence, interest, or… … English World dictionary
