Vacant
adjective
Empty, not being used by anyone.
The building has been vacant since the company moved.
Often appears as...
- vacant lot
- vacant land
adjective
Showing no thought or reflection, blank.
She had a vacant look on her face.
Often appears as...
- vacant expression
- vacant stare
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Available for someone to fill in.
There is a vacant position in the marketing department.
Often appears as...
- vacant position
- vacant post
adjective
Empty, not being used by anyone.
The building has been vacant since the company moved.
Often appears as...
- vacant lot
- vacant land
adjective
Showing no thought or reflection, blank.
She had a vacant look on her face.
Often appears as...
- vacant expression
- vacant stare
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Available for someone to fill in.
There is a vacant position in the marketing department.
Often appears as...
- vacant position
- vacant post
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Spaces
Often used for buildings, rooms, or areas that await to be filled or used.
The auditorium remained vacant after the event.
Pro Tip 2/3Seeking Occupancy
Employs a sense of availability that invites use or occupancy.
The sign advertised a vacant apartment.
Pro Tip 3/3Suggests Opportunity
When something is vacant, it might suggest a chance to use or claim the space.
Noticing the vacant bench, she quickly sat down.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Spaces
Often used for buildings, rooms, or areas that await to be filled or used.
The auditorium remained vacant after the event.
Pro Tip 2/3Seeking Occupancy
Employs a sense of availability that invites use or occupancy.
The sign advertised a vacant apartment.
Pro Tip 3/3Suggests Opportunity
When something is vacant, it might suggest a chance to use or claim the space.
Noticing the vacant bench, she quickly sat down.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Spaces
Often used for buildings, rooms, or areas that await to be filled or used.
The auditorium remained vacant after the event.
Pro Tip 2/3Seeking Occupancy
Employs a sense of availability that invites use or occupancy.
The sign advertised a vacant apartment.
Pro Tip 3/3Suggests Opportunity
When something is vacant, it might suggest a chance to use or claim the space.
Noticing the vacant bench, she quickly sat down.
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Video examples
Saving Hawaii’s Birds...
The site is going to be vacant. You know, we feel like it's like walking into a ghost town. This place that was the core of the ʻAkikiki world, their castle, their bastion, where we always thought that they would do the best. You walk in and it's empty streets. It's really it's really sad and
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How My Mind Came Back to...
I hoped that my reality would change and someone would see that I had come back to life. But I had been washed away like a sand castle built too close to the waves, and in my place was the person people expected me to be. To some I was Martin, a vacant shell, the vegetable,
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Urbanization and the...
in a way that does not damage the land that provides us with the goods and services that support the human population. Food production might move to vertical farms and skyscrapers, rooftop gardens, or vacant lots in city centers, while power will increasingly come
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Alex Steffen: The...
We're finding that people can share the same spaces, do stuff with vacant space. Buildings are becoming bundles of services. So we have new designs that are helping us take mechanical things that we used to spend energy on -- like heating, cooling etc. --
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A Scary New Breed of...
taken by our wildlife camera back in February obviously wasn't a dog that's the nastiest scariest thing that I had seen but he had a very triangular face and triangular ears that stood up the eyes were kind of a vacant stare but he
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Redefining how we use...
can be easily removed without damaging property so I put boxes the free stickers and businesses around the city and I posted grids the blank stickers on vacant buildings and I was really amazed
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A Republican mayor's...
but in a community-wide effort bringing resources together to address vacant and abandoned properties. And I am using this approach in Tulsa. I want Tulsa to be a world-class city,
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What makes life worth...
only a harsh, vacant, gleaming white desert. As if a sandstorm had erased all familiarity. I had to face my mortality and try to understand what made my life worth living,
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Poetic Stickup: Put the...
just so I can sit in a classroom. And all these years, all y'all been doing is strangling the life out of my bank statement, leaving my pockets as vacant as parking lots.
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He Grew Up on the...
it's a way to help the community I'm the supervisor to lawn care service we're cutting most of the lots that were previously vacant homes that were tore down
Video examples
Saving Hawaii’s Birds...
The site is going to be vacant. You know, we feel like it's like walking into a ghost town. This place that was the core of the ʻAkikiki world, their castle, their bastion, where we always thought that they would do the best. You walk in and it's empty streets. It's really it's really sad and
Video examples
How My Mind Came Back to...
I hoped that my reality would change and someone would see that I had come back to life. But I had been washed away like a sand castle built too close to the waves, and in my place was the person people expected me to be. To some I was Martin, a vacant shell, the vegetable,
Video examples
Urbanization and the...
in a way that does not damage the land that provides us with the goods and services that support the human population. Food production might move to vertical farms and skyscrapers, rooftop gardens, or vacant lots in city centers, while power will increasingly come
Video examples
Alex Steffen: The...
We're finding that people can share the same spaces, do stuff with vacant space. Buildings are becoming bundles of services. So we have new designs that are helping us take mechanical things that we used to spend energy on -- like heating, cooling etc. --
Video examples
A Scary New Breed of...
taken by our wildlife camera back in February obviously wasn't a dog that's the nastiest scariest thing that I had seen but he had a very triangular face and triangular ears that stood up the eyes were kind of a vacant stare but he
Video examples
Redefining how we use...
can be easily removed without damaging property so I put boxes the free stickers and businesses around the city and I posted grids the blank stickers on vacant buildings and I was really amazed
Video examples
A Republican mayor's...
but in a community-wide effort bringing resources together to address vacant and abandoned properties. And I am using this approach in Tulsa. I want Tulsa to be a world-class city,
Video examples
What makes life worth...
only a harsh, vacant, gleaming white desert. As if a sandstorm had erased all familiarity. I had to face my mortality and try to understand what made my life worth living,
Video examples
Poetic Stickup: Put the...
just so I can sit in a classroom. And all these years, all y'all been doing is strangling the life out of my bank statement, leaving my pockets as vacant as parking lots.
Video examples
He Grew Up on the...
it's a way to help the community I'm the supervisor to lawn care service we're cutting most of the lots that were previously vacant homes that were tore down
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Quote examples
Tom Anderson
American Businessman
When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth.
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Harvey Mason, Jr.
American Producer
I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.
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Todd Solondz
American Writer
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
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Imogen Cunningham
American Photographer
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
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Gary Larson
American Cartoonist
I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant lot.
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Bob Dylan
American Musician
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
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William Cowper
English Poet
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Lady Gaga
American Singer
I like black because it is a vacant space.
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Archie Manning
American Athlete
When I grew up, we played in vacant lots.
Quote examples
Tom Anderson
American Businessman
When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth.
Quote examples
Harvey Mason, Jr.
American Producer
I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.
Quote examples
Todd Solondz
American Writer
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
Quote examples
Imogen Cunningham
American Photographer
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Quote examples
George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
Quote examples
Gary Larson
American Cartoonist
I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant lot.
Quote examples
Bob Dylan
American Musician
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
Quote examples
William Cowper
English Poet
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Quote examples
Lady Gaga
American Singer
I like black because it is a vacant space.
Quote examples
Archie Manning
American Athlete
When I grew up, we played in vacant lots.
Example 1 of 10
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