vacant: [13] Latin vacāre meant ‘be empty’. Its present participle vacāns has provided English with vacant, while its past participle lies behind English vacate [17] and vacation [14]. It also formed the basis of an adjective vacuus ‘empty’, from which English gets vacuous [17] and vacuum [16] (the term vacuum cleaner is first recorded in 1903, and the consequent verb vacuum in 1922). English avoid and void come from a variant of Latin vacāre. => vacate, vacuum
vacant (adj.)
c. 1300, "not filled, held, or occupied," from Old French vacant "idle, unoccupied" (of an office, etc.), from Latin vacantem (nominative vacans), "empty, unoccupied," present participle of vacare "to be empty" (see vain). Meaning "characterized by absence of mental occupation" is from 1570s. Related: Vacantly.
实用例句
1. They may headhunt her for the vacant position of Executive Producer.
他们可能会挖她去填补执行制片人这一空缺职位。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The vacant W.B.C. junior-lightweight title has been called off.
空缺的世界拳击理事会次轻量级头衔被取消了。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Vacant rooms on the campus were being used by holidaying families.
