vacancy
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vacancy (plural vacancies)
- An unoccupied position or job.
- An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
- Empty space.
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- Lack of intelligence or understanding.
- (physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice