0 to leave a room, building, chair, etc. so that it is available for other people:
1 to leave a place or position:
When he left the university, he had to vacate his university-provided housing.
2 to leave a job so that someone else must be found to do it:
3 to leave a building, room, seat, etc. so that it is available for other people to use:
4 if a court's decision is vacated, it is changed so that it does not have to be obeyed:
They allowed retired and elderly couples or single people to vacate cottages needed for working families, without obliging them to leave the village altogether.
Conversely, other species would vacate stations which had become unsuitable.
This represents the surviving bubble expanding to fill the space vacated by its smaller neighbor.
To facilitate land rehabilitation, the community vacated the land.
Rhinos are nominees for stepping into the vacated ground sloth niche.
Or they sleep in churches and schools, which they vacate during the day.
More specifically, we examine not only how justices vacated their posts, but also what forces and considerations prompted their decisions to do so.
Riots were one means of vacating the slum lands.