noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fill a post/position/vacancy etc
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Women fill 35% of senior management positions.
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Thank you for your letter. Unfortunately, the vacancy has already been filled.
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The UK should find another weapon to fill the same role .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
unfilled
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That compares with 13,221 unemployed claimants and 241 unfilled vacancies in January 1987.
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The teaching unions estimate there are some 10,000 unfilled vacancies .
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We already have a shortage of science teachers: the Royal Society estimates at least 400 unfilled vacancies in 1981.
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Careers offices now hold a stock of 197 unfilled vacancies , compared with the 160 jobs on offer in February.
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How can we be sure that employers don't use Work Experience to cover for unfilled vacancies ?
■ NOUN
job
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General manager Michael Prendergast said he was amazed at the response to the job vacancies .
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They were to be established in all districts, financed by the Treasury, and would publish information about job vacancies .
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Even so, by 1987, the Sinfield and Fraser estimate shows an overall ratio of eighteen unemployed to every job vacancy .
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Beaver has agreements with 15 recruitment agencies for 200 job vacancies that several companies are trying to fill.
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The 1,500,000 job vacancies were mostly in undesirable jobs or areas.
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The best paper for job vacancies is the Sunday issue of Berlingske Tidende.
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This newspaper contains many helpful hints on job seeking as well as lots of varied and interesting job vacancies .
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But green shoots were reported to be visible in job vacancy trends.
rate
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Royal College of Nursing figures show that the three-month vacancy rate has risen by 30 % in the southeast.
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A huge demands for apartments pushed vacancy rates down to the 1 to 2 percent level.
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But then I had to move to San Francisco, a market touting a less than one percent vacancy rate .
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In the San Diego metropolitan area, the vacancy rate is estimated to be about 10. 5 percent, Phillips said.
■ VERB
advertise
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Bogus jobs line threat DIAL-A-JOB firms advertising bogus vacancies could soon be outlawed.
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Advertised vacancies Go through advertised vacancies in local, regional and national papers and professional journals with a fine-tooth comb!
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He's allowed his pub the Red Lion in Northleach, to advertise vacancies supplied by the jobcentre.
fill
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These are the course which will fill their vacancies rapidly.
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In fact, many teachers have left private preschool jobs to help fill the vacancies in primary-grade classrooms.
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The Executive Committee shall have power to fill any vacancy occurring in the office of Auditor during the year. 10.
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No wonder, then, that so many candidates are competing to fill the vacancy in DeKalb.
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He fills a vacancy created by the recent resignation of James White, 56 years old and former vice chairman.
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Then another image began to fill the vacancy .
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Then, too, the band or orchestra directors may encourage kids to fill certain vacancies in the ensembles.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A vacancy exists for an import/export sales manager at our Paris office.
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Barnhart will fill a vacancy on the Planning Commission.
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I'm sorry, the firm has no vacancies at the moment.
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Skilled workers are few, and employers are having trouble filling vacancies.
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The hotel had hung out its "No vacancy " sign.
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There are over 3 million people unemployed and only 400,000 vacancies.
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There might be some vacancies at the hospital.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A huge demands for apartments pushed vacancy rates down to the 1 to 2 percent level.
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However, management will be aware that vacancies will arise in the ensuing months.
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Mr Tomlinson will comment on school vacancies in his next annual report, due early next year.
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The industrial tribunal had not identified a suitable alternative vacancy .
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The number of deputy headship vacancies also rose, from 2,132 to 2,417.
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There is one vacancy , on the San Francisco Peninsula, which may be filled in March.