Vacant

  • 21vacant — va|cant [ veıkənt ] adjective * 1. ) a place that is vacant is available, because no one else is using it: The room on the first floor is vacant. This house has been vacant since early spring. a vacant seat/chair/table: The only vacant seats are… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 22vacant */ — UK [ˈveɪkənt] / US adjective 1) a place that is vacant is available, because no one else is using it The room on the first floor is vacant. This house has been vacant since early spring. a vacant seat/chair/table: The only vacant seats are on the …

    English dictionary

  • 23vacant — [[t]ve͟ɪkənt[/t]] 1) ADJ: usu ADJ n If something is vacant, it is not being used by anyone. Half way down the coach was a vacant seat... In every major city there are more vacant buildings than there are homeless people. Syn: empty 2) ADJ If a… …

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  • 24vacant — adjective 1 a vacant seat, room etc is empty and available for someone to use: Only a few apartments were still vacant. 2 formal a vacant job or position in an organization is available for someone to start doing: fall vacant (=become vacant) 3… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 25VACANT — ANTE. adj. Qui n est pas occupé, qui est à remplir. Il se dit proprement Des maisons, lieux et places qui ne sont pas occupés. Maison vacante. Lit vacant dans un hôpital. Il y a un appartement vacant dans cette maison.   Il se dit figurément Des… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 26vacant — Empty; unoccupied; as, a vacant office or parcel of land. Deprived of contents, without inanimate objects. It implies entire abandonment, nonoccupancy for any purpose. Foley v. Sonoma County Farmers Mut. Fire Ins. Co. of Sonoma, Cal.App., 108… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 27vacant — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become, fall (only used of jobs) ▪ A seat became vacant and he took it. ▪ A job fell vacant in the accounting department. ▪ …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 28vacant — va•cant [[t]ˈveɪ kənt[/t]] adj. 1) having no contents; empty; void 2) having no occupant; unoccupied: no vacant seats on this train[/ex] 3) not in use: a vacant warehouse[/ex] 4) lacking in thought or intelligence: a vacant expression[/ex] 5) not …

    From formal English to slang

  • 29vacant — /ˈveɪkənt / (say vaykuhnt) adjective 1. having no contents; empty; void. 2. devoid or destitute (of). 3. having no occupant: vacant chairs. 4. untenanted, as a house, etc. 5. not in use, as a room. 6. free from work, business, etc., as time. 7.… …

  • 30vacant — I. Vacant, voyez Vaquer. II. Demander un office vacant par mort, Petere in locum demortui. Vacant par resignation Petere in locum sese abdicantis. B …

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