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Evacuation vs Vacancy - What's the difference?

evacuation | vacancy |

As nouns the difference between evacuation and vacancy

is that evacuation is evacuation (act of emptying) while vacancy is an unoccupied position or job.

evacuation

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
  • Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, fortress, etc.
  • Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
  • The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
  • That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.
  • (Quincy)
  • Abolition; nullification.
  • (Hooker)

    Derived terms

    * evac * Evacuation Day * med-evac * noncombatant evacuation operations * tactical aeromedical evacuation

    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