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Vacancy vs Vacant - What's the difference?

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Vacant is a related term of vacancy.

Vacant is a derived term of vacancy.



As a noun vacancy

is an unoccupied position or job.

As an adjective vacant is

not occupied; empty.

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

    • Related terms

    * vacant adjective * vacate verb

    vacant

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not occupied; empty.
    • vacant lot
  • Showing no intelligence or interest.
    • ''a vacant stare

    Synonyms

    * (Not occupied) available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied * (Showing no intelligence or interest) vacuous, thousand mile stare

    Derived terms

    * vacancy noun * vacantly adverb

    Related terms

    * vacate verb