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(1):

(n.) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.

(2):

(n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.

(3):

(n.) That which is vacant.

(4):

(n.) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.

(5):

(n.) 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.

(6):

(n.) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.