No vacancy is the lit-up sign meaning the hotel is completely full. The no vacancy sign, put up no vacancy, a no vacancy light.
The sign usually reads vacancy and gains its no when the last room goes, which is why the phrase is so fixed. It belongs to roadside motels more than to city hotels, which take bookings instead.
1phraseno vacancyThe lit-up sign meaning the hotel is completely full.
“Three motels in a row showed no vacancy.”
no vacancy is a phrase.
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