adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blank/vacant expression (= one that shows no emotion, understanding, or interest )
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The blank expression on Bobbie’s face gave way to anger.
a vacant stare (= seeming not to notice or be thinking anything )
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She was gazing out of the window with a vacant stare.
an empty/vacant seat
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Patrick spotted an empty seat near the back.
vacant lot (= empty land )
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the vacant lot behind the Commercial Hotel
vacant possession
vacant/derelict British English (= unused )
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The houses could be built on derelict land.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
expression
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The maid's vacant expression was replaced momentarily by one of greedy expectation - shortly followed by disappointment.
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He was a bright-eyed boy, thin and fair, with a vacant expression that often gave way to shrill laughter.
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However, just behind the vacant expression he offered me, I detected fear.
house
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And there was a vacant house in the Lossie Estate, almost next door to where they lived.
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Punta Banda's ghostly streets, vacant houses and shuttered hotel bear testimony to dreams gone sour.
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The survey report points out that both of these estimates included vacant houses and are not comparable with the latest figure.
land
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Much more interesting are the larger complexes which occupy the vacant land immediately behind the main frontages.
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The city is in the final stages of annexing a 28-mile swath of vacant land south of town.
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Public- and private-sector users were both reluctant to put vacant land on the market.
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In many cities, most vacant land was not owned by local government but by the private sector and statutory authorities.
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Kenski points to Prop 105, a referendum which exempted vacant land owned by cemeteries from taxation.
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Only six percent of the vacant land had been landscaped and maintained.
lot
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Woke up to hear bulldozers Rumble through vacant lots , Saw houseplants we forgot to water Shrivelled in their pots.
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We stood in the vacant lot , which was still a vacant lot, where the three tramps were found.
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He'd even searched the vacant lots .
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We stood in the vacant lot , which was still a vacant lot, where the three tramps were found.
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Sanitation: A special task force shall be assigned to clean up all vacant lots and trashed areas throughout the deprived areas.
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At 11 p. m., he said, a man telephoned his room, and together they drove to a vacant lot .
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On our march we camped one night in a vacant lot adjoining a female seminary at Gordonsville.
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Broughton said the codes would make it simpler to build on small hillside vacant lots in older developed neighborhoods.
possession
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Virtually all empty dwellings were now sold with vacant possession , at extremely high prices.
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Where properties are untenanted, Retirement Assured has valued them at open market value with vacant possession .
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And of course for that, you do get vacant possession .
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People who sell will want to sell with vacant possession , and that means asking people to leave.
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Would you have to pay income tax on it, and could you get vacant possession when you needed it?
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They think it unlikely that the company would sell the properties without vacant possession .
post
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He said there would be no enforced redundancies, but some vacant posts would remain unfilled.
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Clinton has appointed three successors to the vacant posts .
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As you will see from the Who's who page we have two vacant posts on the committee.
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No replacement has yet been sought; or found for the vacant post of Chief Executive.
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At the moment half a dozen vacant posts are filled a year.
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They became close friends, and when Arnet died in 1728 Hooper applied for the vacant post .
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Instead of filling the directly vacant post , staff can be moved round, and the resulting vacancy filled.
property
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Rate bills are the occupier's responsibility, or, in the case of vacant property , the person entitled to occupation.
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No housing department had a policy on identifying vacant properties with adaptation potential.
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According to Barber White, a firm of property researchers, there are about 11m square feet of vacant property in the City.
seat
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His vacant seat on the panel was filled, naturally enough, by William Harrison.
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She pointed to a vacant seat which was at the end of a row near the gangway.
site
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Discussion took place regarding the vacant site adjacent to the Railway Inn.
space
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Robert sat at a vacant space and put his head in his hands.
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It has begun tracing lines, through totally vacant space , between recurrences.
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And she was even more impressed as he recalled opening the shoebox, with its matching glass decorations and its vacant space .
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And they began looking at how to make the most of the small vacant spaces .
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Etta Moon, 67, stood before the vacant space that was once her home.
stare
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Eyes downcast; baby lips pulled into a frown; dull, vacant stare .
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Brittany, the blond cheerleader, has a vacant stare and huge eyelashes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
house/flat with vacant possession
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brunton went into the bar, but he couldn't spot a single vacant seat.
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Half of the apartments in the building are vacant .
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He applied for the job of Eliot's personal secretary, which had just fallen vacant .
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If you're looking for somewhere to rent, I think there's a vacant apartment in my building.
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Of the buildings the company owns, only 3% are vacant .
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Our company only has one or two vacant positions at the moment.
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The next guesthouse we tried had a couple of rooms vacant .
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The police had set up a temporary station in a vacant apartment across the street.
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There don't seem to be any vacant rooms in the whole of London!
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When the post became vacant it was offered to Wendy Brooks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clinton has appointed three successors to the vacant posts.
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During the 1870s agricultural depression had led to land and even rural jobs lying vacant .
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He said there would be no enforced redundancies, but some vacant posts would remain unfilled.
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It was the elder Gough who founded the Marin Weightlifting Club and relocated it to the vacant machine shop in 1990.
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She stared back at him, more vacant and stupid than he had ever seen her.
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The flat above was reserved for some sort of company letting and was, at present, vacant .
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Then the station you left hires some one to fill your vacant slot.