vacant

• adj.空虚な; 空虚な; 無為な; 当惑した
• n.(空席の)人名；（仏語）ヴァカント

語源はラテン語のvacare「空虚」で、語源的にはvainと同じ。

vacant

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.

1. They may headhunt her for the vacant position of Executive Producer.

彼らは彼女を掘ってエグゼクティブプロデューサーという空席を埋めるかもしれない。

2.The vacant W.B.C.junior-lightweight title has been called off.

空席の世界ボクシング評議会フライ級タイトルが取り消された。

3. Vacant rooms on the campus were being used by holidaying families.

キャンパスの遊休寮には休暇を過ごす家族が住んでいる。

4.Half way down the coach was a vacant seat.

車両の中央部に空席があります。

5.The seat next to him was vacant .

彼の隣の席は空いています。