Definition of vacancy

• n. - The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
• n. - That which is vacant.
• n. - Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
• n. - 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.
• n. - Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
• n. - A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.