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# vacant

«vacant» in Mova's school dictionary: **empty, not being used or lived in: a vacant seat, a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (vacant); adverb vacantly; noun vacancy (a vacancy, vacancies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Vacant means empty, not being used or lived in: a vacant seat, a vacant house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacant/#m1)

2) A vacant job is one that nobody is doing yet, so someone may be hired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacant/#m2)

3) A vacant look or expression shows no thought or interest, as if the person is not paying attention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacant/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, signs say «Vacant» on toilet doors and «Vacancies» at hotels; a vacant lot is an empty piece of land. In maths word problems, vacant seats or rooms = total − taken. In stories, a vacant stare shows tiredness or shock.

### examples

- Is this seat vacant? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacant/#x1)
- The toilet sign says «vacant», so you can go in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacant/#x2)
- The old shop has been vacant for months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacant/#x3)
- The hotel had no vacancies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacant/#x4)
- There is a vacant job at the library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacant/#x5)
- He gave me a vacant stare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacant/#x6)
- The cinema has 120 seats and 85 are taken, so 35 are vacant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacant/#x7)
- Old Iktomi led his young Iktomi brood to the place where he had left the turtle, but it was vacant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacant/#x8)

### note

Opposite: occupied, taken, engaged (UK toilets). In maths: vacant = total − occupied. «Vacant» describes places; «vacation» (US holiday) comes from the same idea of being empty or free.

### Trees and pragmatics

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