vacancy: Meaning and Definition of

va•can•cy

1. the state of being vacant; emptiness.
2. a vacant, empty, or unoccupied place, as untenanted lodgings or offices: This building still has no vacancies.
3. a gap; opening; breach.
4. an unoccupied position or office: a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
5. lack of thought or intelligence; vacuity: a look of utter vacancy.
6. (in a crystal) an imperfection resulting from an unoccupied lattice position. Cf.(def. 3).
7. absence of activity; idleness.