vacate

«vacate» in Mova's school dictionary: to leave it so that it is empty for someone else — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (vacate, vacates, vacated, vacating)

meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To vacate a place is to leave it so that it is empty for someone else. tree →

2) (formal) To vacate a job or seat is to give it up. tree →

sense in the lessons

Seen on signs and notices («Please vacate the room by…»), in hotels, flats and offices; in safety drills it means everyone must leave a building.

examples

• Please vacate your seats when the bell rings. tree →
• Guests must vacate their rooms by eleven o'clock. tree →
• The family had to vacate the flat when the lease ended. tree →
• Everyone vacated the building during the fire drill. tree →
• The captain vacated his post to become coach. tree →
• The hall must be vacated for cleaning. tree →
• Such an idea, however, did not occur to him, for he could not conceive how any woman should fill the place his queen had vacated. tree →

note

Formal word; in everyday talk say «leave» or «move out». Related: vacant (empty), vacancy, vacation (US: holiday).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «vacate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.