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Availability vs Vacancy - What's the difference?

availability | vacancy |

As nouns the difference between availability and vacancy

is that availability is the quality of being available while vacancy is an unoccupied position or job.

availability

English

Noun

(availabilities)
  • (chiefly, uncountable) The quality of being available.
  • What is your availability this week?
  • (countable) That which is available.
  • We have several availabilities .

    Synonyms

    * (quality of being available) availableness, accessibility

    Antonyms

    * (quality of being available) unavailability

    vacancy

    English

    Noun

    (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 [...].
  • Lack of intelligence or understanding.
  • (physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice