Vacate
verb
To leave a place, especially one that was previously occupied.
After the concert, the audience begins to vacate the premises.
Often appears as...
- vacate the premises
- vacate the room
verb
To give up possession or occupancy of something.
The tenant vacated the apartment at the end of the month.
Often appears as...
- vacate a position
- vacate a property
verb
In law, to make something void or annul, especially a contract or decision.
The court decided to vacate the previous verdict.
Often appears as...
- vacate a verdict
- vacate a judgement
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Technical
verb
To leave a place, especially one that was previously occupied.
After the concert, the audience begins to vacate the premises.
Often appears as...
- vacate the premises
- vacate the room
verb
To give up possession or occupancy of something.
The tenant vacated the apartment at the end of the month.
Often appears as...
- vacate a position
- vacate a property
verb
In law, to make something void or annul, especially a contract or decision.
The court decided to vacate the previous verdict.
Often appears as...
- vacate a verdict
- vacate a judgement
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Temporary Leave
Used when someone leaves a place temporarily and might return.
We'll vacate the cabin during the day for cleaning.
Pro Tip 2/2Clearing Space
Often used to tell someone to leave so the area can be used by others.
Please vacate the table as soon as you're done.
Pro Tip 1/2Temporary Leave
Used when someone leaves a place temporarily and might return.
We'll vacate the cabin during the day for cleaning.
Pro Tip 2/2Clearing Space
Often used to tell someone to leave so the area can be used by others.
Please vacate the table as soon as you're done.
Pro Tip 1/2Temporary Leave
Used when someone leaves a place temporarily and might return.
We'll vacate the cabin during the day for cleaning.
Pro Tip 2/2Clearing Space
Often used to tell someone to leave so the area can be used by others.
Please vacate the table as soon as you're done.
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The case of the...
except, perhaps, a lonely queen and a few other survivors. It's full of untouched food stores and a brood of unborn larvae, suggesting that the adults vacated without waiting for them to hatch. But what's particularly eerie is that there's no tell-tale mass of dead or dying bees nearby.
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Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
that's that I'm afraid it's a bit of a shame really you think of two different lipids that were on the property at lunchtime we would have had one where the last seems as though both of them have decided to vacate for the afternoon Safari which is okay maybe
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Catherine Bracy: Why...
and are still in the app store today. And because of this action, that contract was vacated, and now this has sparked a movement in Mexico City which is home to one of our partners, Code for Mexico City. And so what you see in all three of these places,
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For more wonder, rewild...
has become reforested as loggers and farmers have retreated, particularly from the eastern half of the country. There's another one which suggests that 30 million hectares of land in Europe, an area the size of Poland, will be vacated by farmers
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Safari Live - Day 257 PIPE...
have been elephants all over the place so perhaps they're all feeling a little bit uneasy and as I said if fly-ins or elephants do come over a place like this and get upset with the hind as the adults we'll just vacate they'll abandon
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How I help free innocent...
They were arrested at 15, and their conviction was vacated 29 years later. Now this was a case, once again -- first blush, it looked open and shut. They had confessed.
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The Life Story...
triggers a chain reaction each crab hurriedly moves into the shell vacated by the crab ahead of it in the line just as the small crab attempts to move into
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Crabs Trade Shells in...
This triggers a chain-reaction. Each crab hurriedly moves into the shell vacated by the crab ahead of it in the line.
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ONE HOUR of Amazing...
this triggers a chain reaction each crab hurriedly moves into the shell vacated by the crab ahead of it in the line
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10 TOP Natural History...
vacated by the crab ahead of it in the line just as the small crab attempts to move
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The case of the...
except, perhaps, a lonely queen and a few other survivors. It's full of untouched food stores and a brood of unborn larvae, suggesting that the adults vacated without waiting for them to hatch. But what's particularly eerie is that there's no tell-tale mass of dead or dying bees nearby.
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Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
that's that I'm afraid it's a bit of a shame really you think of two different lipids that were on the property at lunchtime we would have had one where the last seems as though both of them have decided to vacate for the afternoon Safari which is okay maybe
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Catherine Bracy: Why...
and are still in the app store today. And because of this action, that contract was vacated, and now this has sparked a movement in Mexico City which is home to one of our partners, Code for Mexico City. And so what you see in all three of these places,
Video examples
For more wonder, rewild...
has become reforested as loggers and farmers have retreated, particularly from the eastern half of the country. There's another one which suggests that 30 million hectares of land in Europe, an area the size of Poland, will be vacated by farmers
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 257 PIPE...
have been elephants all over the place so perhaps they're all feeling a little bit uneasy and as I said if fly-ins or elephants do come over a place like this and get upset with the hind as the adults we'll just vacate they'll abandon
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How I help free innocent...
They were arrested at 15, and their conviction was vacated 29 years later. Now this was a case, once again -- first blush, it looked open and shut. They had confessed.
Video examples
The Life Story...
triggers a chain reaction each crab hurriedly moves into the shell vacated by the crab ahead of it in the line just as the small crab attempts to move into
Video examples
Crabs Trade Shells in...
This triggers a chain-reaction. Each crab hurriedly moves into the shell vacated by the crab ahead of it in the line.
Video examples
ONE HOUR of Amazing...
this triggers a chain reaction each crab hurriedly moves into the shell vacated by the crab ahead of it in the line
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10 TOP Natural History...
vacated by the crab ahead of it in the line just as the small crab attempts to move
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Quote examples
Carl Froch
English Athlete
When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.
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Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.
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Helen Garner
Australian Novelist
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
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Ben Rhodes
American Public Servant
The fact of the matter is the West Wing never gets fully renovated because nobody wants to vacate it. And so you have basically patch-up jobs that are being done, but it's a tight and cramped environment.
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Sunil Mittal
Indian Businessman
I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.
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Al-Waleed bin Talal
Saudi Arabian Businessman
My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.
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Wilbur Smith
Novelist
When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.
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Keren Woodward
English Musician
We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.
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Peter Sunde
Swedish Businessman
Of course I would have preferred to win in the Supreme Court as personal vindication and to vacate my sentence.
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Terence Crawford
American Athlete
I was undisputed. I never got my titles took. I vacated them.
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Carl Froch
English Athlete
When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.
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Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.
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Helen Garner
Australian Novelist
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
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Ben Rhodes
American Public Servant
The fact of the matter is the West Wing never gets fully renovated because nobody wants to vacate it. And so you have basically patch-up jobs that are being done, but it's a tight and cramped environment.
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Sunil Mittal
Indian Businessman
I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.
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Al-Waleed bin Talal
Saudi Arabian Businessman
My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.
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Wilbur Smith
Novelist
When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.
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Keren Woodward
English Musician
We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.
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Peter Sunde
Swedish Businessman
Of course I would have preferred to win in the Supreme Court as personal vindication and to vacate my sentence.
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Terence Crawford
American Athlete
I was undisputed. I never got my titles took. I vacated them.
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