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Vacate: meaning, example and synonyms

Vacatev. To leave a place or position, making it empty or available.

Flashcard for Vacate (verb): to leave a place or position, making it empty or available. Example: When the senior judge vacated her seat on the court, the choice of her successor became the central issue of the legislative session. Synonyms: leave, quit, evacuate, relinquish. Antonyms: occupy, inhabit, retain, fill. Memory tip: Vacate, vacant, vacation: all from Latin vacare, to be empty. Illustration: two movers carrying the last cardboard boxes out of an empty office with a bare desk and blank walls.

Example

When the senior judge vacated her seat on the court, the choice of her successor became the central issue of the legislative session.

Part of speech
verb
Synonyms
leave, quit, evacuate, relinquish
Antonyms
occupy, inhabit, retain, fill
Memory tip
Vacate, vacant, vacation: all from Latin vacare, to be empty.

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Question 1

Tenants were given thirty days to ______ the building before demolition crews arrived to clear the site for the new transit station.

Question 2

When the chair of the department ______ her position to lead a national research institute, the faculty began a search that would last nearly two years.

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