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vacancies |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Vacancy \Va"can*cy\, n.; pl {Vacancies}. [Cf. F. vacance.] 1. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. That which is vacant. Specifically: a Empty space; vacuity; vacuum. How is't with you That you do bend your eye on vacancy? --Shak. b An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts. c Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation. Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities. --Milton. No interim, not a minute's vacancy. --Shak. Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. --Dryden. d A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc
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