Word Finder - vacate

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To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction.

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I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in.

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To leave an office or position.

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He vacated his coaching position because of the corruption scandal.

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To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.

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The judge vacated the earlier decision when new evidence was presented.

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To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural disaster.

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If you do not immediately vacate the area, we will make you leave with tear gas!

We can then vacate the hall and continue chatting in a local pub.

Should the mayor vacate office permanently a by-election is required.

Then after the tape has been stolen Jenna gives us some hardcore gangster rap, at which point we vacate the lab.

Would all members of New Labor please vacate the premises !

A monumental folly of the highest order which would have seen any respectable company or trade union chairman vacate his seat.

Cohen filed a motion to vacate the arrest warrant, citing the threat to human life.

In those cases the client will be required to vacate immediately.

They will either vacate as soon as you remove them from the shoreline or can die and begin to dry up inside the shell.

You want to vacate with a clear head and not worry about who will be occupying your home.

The producers may only give you a moment's notice to vacate the premises while they do the makeover process.

Guests are welcome after 4pm on day of arrival and requested to vacate their gite by 10 am on day of departure.

She did not live very happily with her new husband, who was warlike and self-willed, and when he was taken prisoner by the Turks (1071) she was compelled to vacate the throne in favour of her son Michael and retire to a convent, where she died.

In 1831 `Ali, a newly appointed Turkish governor of Bagdad, induced Sufug the chief of the Jerba, the more important division of the Shammar, to help him to dislodge his predecessor, Mild, who would not vacate his position, but then refused them the promised payment.

He remained in Mauritius until the March following, when, on promotion to the rank of major-general, he had to vacate the position of Commanding Royal Engineer.

Through the intervention of the pope in 1702, the French, on payment of a large sum, agreed to vacate the town, and in 1715 its fortifications were rebuilt.

By his directions Harrison then fetched in a small band of Cromwell's musketeers and compelled the speaker Lenthall to vacate the chair.

Taylor did not vacate his fellowship at Cambridge before 1636, but he spent, apparently, much of his time in London, for Laud desired that his "mighty parts should be afforded better opportunities of study and improvement than a course of constant preaching would allow of."

Every consideration was shown to the Imperial troops and the Imperial civil authorities, who were allowed to vacate their posts without being subjected to force, and the universal rejoicings of a liberated people were happily marred by no scenes of violence.

Ferdinand was one of the first sovereigns to enter into diplomatic relations with the French republic (1793); and although, a few months later, he was compelled by England and Russia to join the coalition against France, he concluded peace with that power in 1795, and by observing a strict neutrality saved his dominions from invasion by the French, except for a temporary occupation of Livorno, till 1799, when he was compelled to vacate his throne, and a provisional Republican government was established at Florence.

He was restored to the throne of Tuscany after the abdication of Napoleon in 1814 and was received with enthusiasm by the people, but had again to vacate his capital for a short time in 1815, when Murat proclaimed war against Austria.

The larvae of the latter usually vacate their galls, to spin their cocoons in the earth, or, as in the case of Athalia abdominalis, Klg., of the clematis, may emerge from their shelter to feed for some days on the leaves of the gall-bearing plant.

Little is known with certainty of his university career beyond the facts that he became a fellow of Jesus College in 1510 or 1511, that he had soon after to vacate his fellowship, owing to his marriage to " Black Joan," a relative of the landlady of the Dolphin Inn, and that he was reinstated in it on the death of his wife, which occurred in childbirth before the lapse of the year of grace allowed by the statutes.

This form of induction is required to give the clerk a legal title to his beneficium, although his admission to the office by institution is sufficient to vacate any other benefice which he may already possess.

In the same year he brought to an end the investiture struggle in England, in which Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, had been engaged with King Henry I., by retaining himself exclusive right to invest with the ring and crozier, but recognizing the royal nomination .to vacate benefices and oath of fealty for temporal domains.