n. | 1. | |
1. | The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness. | |
2. | That which is vacant. | |
3. | Empty space; vacuity; vacuum. | |
4. | An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; | |
5. | Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation. | |
6. | A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; |
Noun | 1. | vacancy - being unoccupied |
2. | vacancy - an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum" |
VACANCY. A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases
where an office is not filled.
2. By the constitution of the United States, the president has the
power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate.
Whether the president can create an office and fill it during the recess of
the senate, seems to have been much questioned. Story, Const. Sec. 1553. See
Serg. Const. Law, ch. 31; 1 Breese, R. 70.