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. Sir H. Wotton.
2. That which is vacant. Specifically: —
(a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
How is't with you,
That you do bend your eye on vacancy? Shak.
(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. Milton.
No interim, not a minute's vacancy. Shak.
Those little vacancies from toil are sweet. Dryden.
(d) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.