Other forms: vacancies
A vacancy is an open job waiting for someone to fill it. Advertise a vacancy, fill the vacancy, a job vacancy.
In a hotel the sign says no vacancies and means no rooms, which is the older sense of the word — emptiness rather than a post. The number of vacancies against the number of unemployed is one of the standard measures of a labour market.
1nounvacancyAn open job waiting to be filled.
“There's a vacancy for a receptionist at the hotel; you should apply.”
vacancy is an opening.
Also accepted in games: opening
Latin vacantia comes from vacare, to be empty. Vacant, vacuum and vacation are relatives.
Latin
vacantia
English, today
vacancy
From Latin vacantia. a doublet of vacance.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA