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- pronunciation:
- veI
k
 n
si
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
vacancies |
| definition 1: |
vacant condition or quality; emptiness.
- synonyms:
- emptiness, vacantness, vacuity, vacuous, void
- antonyms:
- fullness, occupancy
- similar words:
- bareness, hollowness, vacuum
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| definition 2: |
unfilled space, place, or position.
The hotel has a vacancy.Who will fill the vacancy when the boss retires?- synonyms:
- emptiness, opening, space, void
- similar words:
- availability, gap, hollow
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| definition 3: |
lack of intelligent thought; blankness.
- synonyms:
- blankness, emptiness, vacuity, vacuousness
- similar words:
- deficiency, dullness, fatuity, inanity, stupidity
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| related words: |
blank, void |
adjective + (n.)vacancy
blinking, commercial, current, downtown, enormous, existing, flashing, frequent, industrial, irregular, judicial, mayoral, numerous, nursing, potential, residential, retail, structural, temporary, unfilled
verb + (n.)vacancy
appoint, fill, guarantee, house, leave, nominate
(n.)vacancy
+ verb
arise, create, decontrol, drop, hover, occur, recruit, rise, shrink, soar
noun + (n.)vacancy
amendment,
apartment,
applicant,
cabinet,
candidate,
coaching,
commissioner,
court,
faculty,
filling,
firefighter,
glut,
hotel,
housing,
increase,
independent,
jail,
landlord,
neon,
nomination,
nominee,
occurrence,
office,
percent,
recession,
rental,
tenant,
timing
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The word vacancy
contains the following parts:
vac
Latin
root
that means empty
  Example words:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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