vacancy
空缺,职位空缺,空额,空置
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plural va·can·cies.
- : the state of being vacant; emptiness.
- : a vacant, empty, or unoccupied place, as untenanted lodgings or offices: This building still has no vacancies.
- : a gap; opening; breach.
- : an unoccupied position or office: a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
- : lack of thought or intelligence; vacuity: a look of utter vacancy.
- : Crystallography. an imperfection resulting from an unoccupied lattice position.Compare interstitial.
- : Archaic. absence of activity; idleness.
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Examples
As such, the vacancy caused by Ginsburg’s passing “raises uncertainty across the health care sector,” Fitch analysts say.
Most Americans disagreed with the Republican position, which was that the vacancy should be filled by the winner of the 2016 election.
Partisan rancor only continues to rise in the country, with a vacancy on the Supreme Court the latest flashpoint after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.
In this emergency installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and how the political fight over the court’s new vacancy might unfold.
The Singh departure creates one more vacancy at an already depleted Asia shop inside the Pentagon.
Not that a vacancy or appointments elsewhere in Washington may matter.
And if you want to see it get even worse, just wait until the president selects someone to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy.
But since the vacancy at the spy agency opened up, there are indications he may have had a change of heart.
The Casual Vacancy may be a disappointment, but it is a natural one.
His mind had suspended its operations, whilst his physical eye stared upon vacancy.