adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unfilled vacancy (= a job for which no one has been hired )
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The teaching unions estimate there are some 10,000 unfilled vacancies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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About 13,000 of the unfilled positions are for software engineers.
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It's hard to understand the unemployment figures when so many jobs go unfilled .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At one stage half the permanent health service posts were unfilled and agency staff worked in the flat on a daily basis.
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Demand has been so feverish that the company has a backlog of unfilled orders for commercial satellites.
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He said there would be no enforced redundancies, but some vacant posts would remain unfilled .
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In some areas, especially big cities, there may be anything up to 50 percent of posts left unfilled .
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That compares with 13,221 unemployed claimants and 241 unfilled vacancies in January 1987.
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Then, discerning an unfilled need, he started a cigar-box company in the heart of the Southern Ontario tobacco fields.
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This required all staff to work overtime or for the Command Center to bring in workers to cover unfilled shifts.