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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Vacancy \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.
资料来源 : WordNet®
vacancy
n 1: being unoccupied
2: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the
emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be
ruling in a vacuum" [syn: {void}, {emptiness}, {vacuum}]