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# vacancy

«vacancy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a job that is free and waiting for someone to fill it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a vacancy, vacancies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A vacancy is a job that is free and waiting for someone to fill it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacancy/#m1)

2) A vacancy is also an empty room in a hotel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacancy/#m2)

3) Vacancy can mean emptiness or lack of thought (formal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacancy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In adult life, job vacancies are advertised. Hotels show «vacancies» or «no vacancies». In stories, a vacancy in someone's eyes shows emptiness. Phrases: job vacancy, no vacancies.

### examples

- There is a vacancy for a teacher at our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacancy/#x1)
- The hotel sign said «No vacancies». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacancy/#x2)
- Dad applied for a vacancy at the bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacancy/#x3)
- We found a vacancy at the campsite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacancy/#x4)
- There was a vacancy in his stare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacancy/#x5)
- The club has two vacancies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacancy/#x6)

### note

Countable. Plural: vacancies. Adjective: vacant (empty).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vacancy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacancy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.