vacate
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From Latin vacātus, perfect participle of vacō.
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vacate (third-person singular simple present vacates, present participle vacating, simple past and past participle vacated)
- To move out of a dwelling or other property, either by choice or by eviction.
- I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in.
- You are hereby ordered to vacate the premises within 14 days.
- 2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:
- The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.
- To leave an office or position.
- He vacated his coaching position because of the corruption scandal.
- (law, transitive) To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
- The judge vacated the earlier decision when new evidence was presented.
- 2024 April 27, Maya Yang, “Disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein hospitalized”, in The Observer[1], →ISSN:
- On Thursday, the New York court of appeals vacated his conviction after concluding that a trial judge permitted jurors to see and hear too much evidence not directly related to the charges he faced. It also erased his 23-year prison sentence and ordered a retrial.
- To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural disaster.
- If you do not immediately vacate the area, we will make you leave with tear gas!
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to move out
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to leave an office
to leave an area
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vacate
- inflection of vacare:
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vacate f pl
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vacāte
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vacate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of vacar combined with te