Vacancy vs Lack - What's the difference?
vacancy | lack |
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
(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
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A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
* Shakespeare
* 1994 , (Green Day),
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
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To be short (of'' or ''for something).
* Shakespeare
To be in want.
* Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
As nouns the difference between vacancy and lack
is that vacancy is an unoccupied position or job while lack is a defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.As a verb lack is
to be without, to need, to require.vacancy
English
Noun
(vacancies)lack
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let his lack of years be no impediment.
- I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''
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Antonyms
* glut * surplusVerb
(en verb)- My life lacks excitement.
- He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.
- The young lions do lack , and suffer hunger.