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Vacay vs Vacancy - What's the difference?

vacay | vacancy |

As nouns the difference between vacay and vacancy

is that vacay is vacation while vacancy is an unoccupied position or job.

vacay

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal, US) vacation
  • You're on vacay till the new boss comes in.
    English clippings

    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