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# vacate

«vacate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to leave it so that it is empty for someone else** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (vacate, vacates, vacated, vacating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To vacate a place is to leave it so that it is empty for someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacate/#m1)

2) (formal) To vacate a job or seat is to give it up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Seen on signs and notices («Please vacate the room by…»), in hotels, flats and offices; in safety drills it means everyone must leave a building.

### examples

- Please vacate your seats when the bell rings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacate/#x1)
- Guests must vacate their rooms by eleven o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacate/#x2)
- The family had to vacate the flat when the lease ended. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacate/#x3)
- Everyone vacated the building during the fire drill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacate/#x4)
- The captain vacated his post to become coach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacate/#x5)
- The hall must be vacated for cleaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacate/#x6)
- Such an idea, however, did not occur to him, for he could not conceive how any woman should fill the place his queen had vacated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vacate/#x7)

### note

Formal word; in everyday talk say «leave» or «move out». Related: vacant (empty), vacancy, vacation (US: holiday).

### Trees and pragmatics

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