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Entry 6 senses Webster, 1913

Vacancy

/vāk'-ən-sē/ · Va·can·cy · IPA /ˈveɪkənsi/
01 n. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
pl. Vacancies ((#))
  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.
  3. 3.
    Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
    “How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy?” — Shak.
  4. 4.
    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.
  5. 5.
    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.
  6. 6.
    A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.