VACANCY

vacancy. Vacancy, n. a vacant place, a time of leisure

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Va″can‐cy (?), n.; pl. Vacancies (#). [[Cf. F. vacance.]] 1. 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. 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.