Vacancy /(?)/

pl. Vacancies

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.

2. That which is vacant.
3. Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.

   How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy?

4. 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.
5. Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.

   Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities.

   No interim, not a minute's vacancy.

   Those little vacancies from toil are sweet.

6. A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.