Word Finder - vacated

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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!

In 1757 it capitulated to the French, who, however, vacated it in the following year.

Municipal corporations or other local government bodies have no express power to expel a member, except in such cases where the law declares the member to have vacated his seat, or where power is given by statute to declare the member's seat vacant.

All of the guests, excepting Gladys and Edith, had vacated the inn by the time the Deans finished the morning chores.

We ca n't put things right once you have vacated a property or gone home.

In 1858 he became professor of mathematics at St Andrews, but lectured only for a session, when he vacated the chair for the Lowndean professorship of astronomy and geometry at Cambridge.

Your boat has to be vacated by 10.00 a.m. on your last day.

His Honor Judge Philip Price QC vacated the Chair which was taken by Dr. Gillian Todd.

Halls and rooms must be vacated promptly at the end of this period and left tidy with any rubbish disposed of.

A bay vacated early can be used free for the remaining time.

The original Girls Next Door have vacated the Playboy Mansion and moved on.

Further, several metropolitan areas were struggling with what to do with all of the empty houses, vacated either by foreclosure or default, that filled some neighborhoods.

Only instead of finding herself back in her svelte body, she takes up residence in Jane's recently vacated one.

Pilot - The episode in which Deb's soul collided with Jane's recently vacated body and the dramedy of errors begins.

Brandon folded into the chair Miss Clara had vacated and smiled nervously.

For working quarters we secured a thirty year old building, recently vacated, on the beautiful main street of Keene.

I wasn't sure if the Pace Arrow motor home had vacated its site or simply was out for an afternoon jaunt.

Killing time as I waited, I picked up a discarded newspaper on a vacated seat next to me.

She grabbed his arm and shoved her foot into the stirrup his foot had vacated for her.

The " Second Wheeling Convention" met according to agreement (11th June), and declared that, since the Secession Convention had been called without the consent of the people, all its acts were void, and that all who adhered to it had vacated their offices.

During the Thirty Years' War it was formed into a fortress by the imperialists, but they vacated it in 1631 to the Swedes, in whose possession it remained after the peace of Westphalia.

On Louis declining the honour, it devolved on Joseph, king of Naples, who vacated that throne for the benefit of Murat - a source of disappointment and annoyance to both.

Of other schools, Merchant Taylors' was founded by the Company of that name in 1561, and has occupied, since 1875, the premises vacated by Charterhouse School.

But, fortunately for the Allies, their .dispositions had been so skilful that the Ottoman staff had not ascertained that the Anzac and Suvla areas had been almost vacated.

Had the Turks kept befitting guard on the night of the 8th-9th, aware as they were that their antagonists contemplated departure, they must have detected that the British trenches had been vacated.

Under William and Mary he succeeded Tillotson as dean of Canterbury in 1689, and (after declining a choice of sees vacated by nonjurors who were his personal friends) followed Thomas Lamplugh as archbishop of York in 1691.

At the end of 1915 he resigned and took up the High Commissionership vacated by Sir George Reid.

In September 1899 President Pierola vacated the presidency in favour of Senor Romana, who had been elected to the office as a popular condidate and without the exercise of any undue official influence.

On the 10th of November 1834 Lord Althorp succeeded to his father's peerage, and thereby vacated the leadership of the House of Commons.

When the session of 1873 had come to an end Gladstone took the chancellorship of the exchequer, and, as high authorities contended, vacated his seat by doing so.

Early in 1498 Adriani became chancellor of the republic, and Machiavelli received his vacated office with the rank of second chancellor and secretary.

Kuropatkin was reinforced, and appointed Kaulbars to succeed Grippenberg and Bilderling to the command of the 3rd Army vacated by Kaulbars.

In 1755 he was promoted major-general, took an English command, and vacated his Irish offices.

During the same year he married Susanna Glyde, and thus vacated his fellowship; but the death of his mother had left him in possession of a handsome fortune.

He held in succession several preferments, among them the vicarage of Kennington near Oxford (1868), which he vacated in 1873 for the crown living of Beverston in Gloucestershire.

Their general tendency was distinctly in a Catholic as opposed to a Puritan direction, and the two thousand Puritan incumbents who vacated their benefices on St Bartholomew's Day rather than accept the altered Prayer Book bear eloquent testimony to that fact.

If any person makes an agreement for the withdrawal of a petition in consideration of a money payment, or of the promise that the seat shall be vacated or another petition withdrawn, or omits to state in his affidavit that he has made an agreement, lawful or unlawful, for the withdrawal, he is guilty of an indictable misdemeanour.

Meanwhile, in 1685 the British had acquired a footing in Benkulen, and between them and the Dutch there was always much jealousy and friction until in 1824 a treaty was made under which the British vacated Sumatra in favour of the Dutch, who reciprocated by giving up Malacca.

Early in 1488 the bishop was made lord high chancellor, but on the king's death in the following June he vacated this office, and retired to Aberdeen.

In 1896 he became premier (president du conseil) and minister for agriculture, offices which he vacated in 1898.

After the check of this expedition and its abandonment, Alexandria was again vacated on the 12th-13th of May, when the city was almost entirely burned.

There is no evidence that the earliest Christians were imbued with the archaeological spirit that interested itself in sites which the Risen Lord had vacated.

Brisson, and Gay-Lussac hurried back to Paris in the hope, which was gratified, that he would be elected to the seat thus vacated in the Academy.

The buildings on the Newgate Street site underwent reconstruction from time to time, and in 1902 were vacated by the school, which was moved to extensive new buildings at Horsham.

On the 2nd of April four commissioners were appointed to superintend the construction of the new castle ordered in the Isle of Sheppey, which when finished was called Queenborough, the purchases and payments, not the works, being under the beloved clerk, Wykeham, In this year came the second visitation of the Black Death, the Second Plague, as it was called, and carried off four bishops and several magnates, with many clerics, whose vacated preferments were poured on Wykeham.

Under this act the coadjutor bishop has the right of succession to the see, or in the case of the archiepiscopal sees and those of London, Winchester and Durham, to the see vacated by the bishop, translated from another diocese to fill the vacancy.

During Lord Curzon's viceroyalty the British troops were concentrated at the extreme southern end of the Chitral country at Kila Drosh and the force was reduced, while the posts vacated and all outlying posts were handed over to levies raised for the purpose from the Chitralis themselves.

This was his appointment to the Andrews professorship of astronomy in the university of Dublin, vacated by Dr Brinkley in 1827.

He took a prominent part, on the Liberal side, in the ecclesiastical controversy which arose in connexion with Leslie's appointment to the post he had vacated, and published a satirical Letter (1806) which was greatly admired by his friends.

Up to 1867 a minister leaving one office and accepting another vacated his seat; after 1867 a transfer from one post to another did not necessitate a fresh election.

It was, to say the least, uncertain whether his action in this respect had, or had not, vacated his seat.