Synonyms for vacancy
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : vey-kuh n-see |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈveɪ kən si |
Top 10 synonyms for vacancy Other synonyms for the word vacancy
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for vacancy
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