Antonyms for vacancy

Grammar : Noun

Spell : vey-kuh n-see

Phonetic Transcription : ˈveɪ kən si

Definition of vacancy

Origin : c.1600, "state of being vacant," from Late Latin vacantia, from vacans (see vacant). Meaning "available room at a hotel" is recorded from 1953. Related: Vacancies.

noun opening

Example sentences :

And—perhaps you'd better not say you are applying until we find out if there is a vacancy.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

We now up helm, and steered for a vacancy among the British vessels.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

It hasn't got no employment for its mind, and is always in a state of vacancy.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

Another of the many shapes in which it started up about him, out of vacancy.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

Then, as for knowing there was a vacancy, that also was money.
Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr

He felt a vacancy in him, a need for the hush and quietude of the stream and the cave in the cliff.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

Is there a curve in it which I can modulate—a line which I can graduate—a vacancy I can fill?
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

The young man continued to gaze before him into vacancy, as if he had not heard.
Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola

Clotilde remained for a moment absorbed in thought, her gaze lost in vacancy.
Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola

His eyes fixed on vacancy, he remained for a time lost in thought.
Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola

Synonyms for vacancy

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