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.

2. That which is vacant. Specifically: --

(a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.

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

(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.

No interim, not a minute's vacancy.

Those little vacancies from toil are sweet.

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

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.

2. That which is vacant. Specifically: --

(a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.

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

(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.

No interim, not a minute's vacancy.

Those little vacancies from toil are sweet.

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

• An unoccupied position or job.
  
• An avaliable room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
  
• Empty space.
  
• Lack of intelligence or understanding.
  
• The absence of program.