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TOEFL BNC: 6366 COCA: 6751

vacant

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va·cant /ˈveɪkənt/ ●●○ adjectiveadj
1  EMPTYAVAILABLEa vacant seat, building, room, or piece of land is empty and available for someone to use 〔座位、房屋、土地〕空的，未被佔用的
Only a few apartments were still vacant.
只有幾套公寓仍然空着。
There was only a vacant lot (=empty unused area of land in a city) where her house used to be.
她以前房子所在的地方只剩下一塊空地了。
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In everyday English, people usually say that a seat or room is free rather than vacant: 在日常英語中，表達座位或房間空着，人們通常說 free，而不說 vacant
Is this seat free?
這個座位空着嗎？
2  BE formal a job or position in an organization that is vacant is available for someone to start doing 〔工作或職位〕空缺的
fall vacant British EnglishBrE (=become vacant) 出缺
He was offered the position of headmaster when it fell vacant.
校長職位空出來以後給了他。
situations vacant British EnglishBrE (=the part of a newspaper where jobs are advertised) 招聘廣告專欄
3  vacant expression/look/stare etc writtenTHINK ABOUT# an expression that shows that someone does not seem to be thinking about anything 茫然的表情/神情/凝視等
He gazed at me with vacant eyes.
他用茫然的眼神看着我。
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vacant expression/look/stare etc• Eyes downcast; baby lips pulled into a frown; dull, vacant stare.• Brittany, the blond cheerleader, has a vacant stare and huge eyelashes.• But an oddly vacant look had come over Cinzia's features.• However, just behind the vacant expression he offered me, I detected fear.• He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened.• He was a bright-eyed boy, thin and fair, with a vacant expression that often gave way to shrill laughter.• The maid's vacant expression was replaced momentarily by one of greedy expectation - shortly followed by disappointment.
—vacantly adverbadv
Cindy was staring vacantly into space.
辛迪茫然地凝視着前方。
Examples from the Corpus
vacant• During the 1870s agricultural depression had led to land and even rural jobs lying vacant.• The flat above was reserved for some sort of company letting and was, at present, vacant.• Half of the apartments in the building are vacant.• He applied for the job of Eliot's personal secretary, which had just fallen vacant.• Of the buildings the company owns, only 3% are vacant.• The next guesthouse we tried had a couple of rooms vacant.• She stared back at him, more vacant and stupid than he had ever seen her.• The police had set up a temporary station in a vacant apartment across the street.• If you're looking for somewhere to rent, I think there's a vacant apartment in my building.• When the post became vacant it was offered to Wendy Brooks.• It was the elder Gough who founded the Marin Weightlifting Club and relocated it to the vacant machine shop in 1990.• Our company only has one or two vacant positions at the moment.• He said there would be no enforced redundancies, but some vacant posts would remain unfilled.• Clinton has appointed three successors to the vacant posts.• There don't seem to be any vacant rooms in the whole of London!• Brunton went into the bar, but he couldn't spot a single vacant seat.• Then the station you left hires some one to fill your vacant slot.
vacant lot• At 11 p. m., he said, a man telephoned his room, and together they drove to a vacant lot.• He'd even searched the vacant lots.• On our march we camped one night in a vacant lot adjoining a female seminary at Gordonsville.• Sanitation: A special task force shall be assigned to clean up all vacant lots and trashed areas throughout the deprived areas.• Broughton said the codes would make it simpler to build on small hillside vacant lots in older developed neighborhoods.• Woke up to hear bulldozers Rumble through vacant lots, Saw houseplants we forgot to water Shrivelled in their pots.• We stood in the vacant lot, which was still a vacant lot, where the three tramps were found.
situations vacant• On revision mornings, however, she even read the situations vacant pages.
From Longman Business Dictionary
vacantva·cant /ˈveɪkənt/ adjectiveadj
1PROPERTYproperty that is vacant is not being used and may be available to rent or buy
The committee recommended that factories should be sited on vacant land in small towns rather than in villages or the open countryside.
The number of vacant properties for all housing applicants has fallen during the same period.
2HUMAN RESOURCESvacant jobs or positions in a company are available for someone to start doing
She turned down two job offers before accepting the vacant post of deputy administrator.
Nine seats have beenleft vacant by recent board resignations.
3situations vacant the part of a newspaper in which jobs are advertised
Origin vacant
(1200-1300) Old French Latin, present participle of vacare “to be empty, be free”
va·cant adjectiveadj →REGISTER1
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TOEFL BNC: 6366 COCA: 6751
vacant

adjective

VERBS➤be空着▸➤become, fall (only used of jobs僅用於指職位) 空出；出缺◇A seat became vacant and he took it.有個座位空出來，他便坐了下來。◇A job fell vacant in the accounting department.財務部出現了一個空缺。➤remain仍然空着▸➤leave sth使⋯空着◇The office of treasurer had been left vacant since her retirement.自從她退休以後，司庫一職就一直空着。➤keep sth使⋯保持空缺◇The job will be kept vacant for a few more weeks.這一崗位還要再空上幾週。
TOEFL BNC: 6366 COCA: 6751
vacant adj.
⇨ empty
TOEFL BNC: 6366 COCA: 6751
vacant
Available and to be, or to become available: available, public, spare...
Applying and interviewing for jobs: affirmative action, applicant, application...
Words used to describe facial expressions: absent, appealing, beatific...
Not paying attention: inattentive, neglectful, preoccupied...

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