vacancy

Definition

An unoccupied position or job.

Etymology

From Late Latin vacantia. Doublet of vacance.

Example Sentences

• "Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress."
• "Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy …."
• "...—who has not looked back to the past with that passion of hopelessness, which deems that life can never more be what it has been,—with a consciousness that the dearer emotions are exhausted, while in their place have arisen but vacancy and weariness?"

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