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vacancy [ˈveɪkənsɪ] n pl -cies
1. the state or condition of being vacant or unoccupied; emptiness 2. an unoccupied post or office we have a vacancy in the accounts department 3. an unoccupied room in a boarding house, hotel, etc. put the ``No Vacancies'' sign in the window 4. lack of thought or intelligent awareness; inanity an expression of vacancy on one's face 5. (Physics / General Physics) Physics a defect in a crystalline solid caused by the absence of an atom, ion, or molecule from its position in the crystal lattice 6. Obsolete idleness or a period spent in idleness ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
vacancy Translations vacancy [ˈveɪkənsɪ] N 1. (= job) → vacante f "vacancies" → ofertas de trabajo "vacancy for keen young man" → se busca joven enérgico to fill a vacancy → proveer una vacante 2. (in boarding house etc) → habitación f libre, cuarto m libre have you any vacancies? → ¿tiene or hay alguna habitación or algún cuarto libre? we have no vacancies for August → para agosto no hay nada disponible, en agosto todo está lleno "no vacancies" → completo "vacancies" → hay habitaciones vacancy [ˈveɪkənsi] n vacancy n (= emptiness) → Leere f; (of look) → Ausdruckslosigkeit f, → Leere f; (of post) → Unbesetztsein nt, → Freisein nt (in boarding house) → (freies) Zimmer; have you any vacancies for August? → haben Sie im August noch Zimmer frei?; “no vacancies” → „belegt“; “vacancies” → „Zimmer frei“ (= job) → offene or freie Stelle; (at university) → Vakanz f, → unbesetzte Stelle; we have a vacancy in our personnel department → in unserer Personalabteilung ist eine Stelle zu vergeben; we have a vacancy for an editor → wir suchen einen Redakteur/eine Redakteurin; to fill a vacancy → eine Stelle besetzen; we are looking for somebody to fill a vacancy in our personnel department → wir suchen einen Mitarbeiter für unsere Personalabteilung; vacancies → Stellenangebote pl, → offene Stellen pl vacancy [ˈveɪk/ənsɪ] n a. (job) → posto (vacante) have you any vacancies? → avete bisogno di personale? "vacancy for a secretary" → "segretaria cercasi" c. (emptiness) → vuoto vacancy [ˈveɪk/ənsɪ] n a. (job) → posto (vacante) have you any vacancies? → avete bisogno di personale? "vacancy for a secretary" → "segretaria cercasi" c. (emptiness) → vuoto How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Had a vacancy occurred in the post office at that time, I should have jumped at it. Another sort is, when [1292b] the magistrates are men of very small fortune, who upon any vacancy do themselves fill it up: and if they do this out of the community at large, the state approaches to an aristocracy; if out of any particular class of people, it will be an oligarchy. , there is now another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. |
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