2  definitions  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 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  vacancy 
  n  1:  being  unoccupied 
  2:  an  empty  area  or  space;  "the  huge  desert  voids";  "the 
  emptiness  of  outer  space"  [syn:  {void},  {emptiness}] 

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