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Definition of Vacant
Vacant
Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.

Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours.

Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish.

Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind.

Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
Thomas Carlyle

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
Helen Rowland

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
Louis XIV

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
Louis XIV

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Robert Smithson

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
Gavin Newsom

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
Todd Solondz



Vacant Translations
vacant in Afrikaans is vakant
vacant in Dutch is leeg, vrij, open, onbezet
vacant in French is vacant
vacant in German is leerstehend, unbesetzt, leerstehende, leer
vacant in Italian is vacante
vacant in Norwegian is vakant, ledig
vacant in Portuguese is vago
vacant in Swedish is obesatt, ledig, tom


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