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vacate

/vey-keyt or, especially British, vuh-keyt, vey-/US // ˈveɪ keɪt or, especially British, vəˈkeɪt, veɪ- //UK // (vəˈkeɪt) //

撤离,迁出,腾出,腾空

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    va·cat·ed, va·cat·ing.

    • : to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
    • : to give up or relinquish: to vacate the presidency of a firm.
    • : to render inoperative; deprive of validity; void; annul: to vacate a legal judgment.
    • : to cause to be empty or unoccupied; make vacant: to vacate one's mind of worries.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    va·cat·ed, va·cat·ing.

    • : to withdraw from occupancy; surrender possession: We will have to vacate when our lease expires.
    • : to give up or leave a position, office, etc.
    • : to leave; go away.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbleave empty
Forms: vacated

Examples

  • A group of conservative House Republicans have begun discussing trying to use an obscure House procedure to try to force a vote to boot Pelosi from the speakership, known as “a motion to vacate the chair,” first reported by Politico.

  • Family members or guests helping students move in face a separate set of restrictions, such as allowing only one guest to enter a hall and requiring them to vacate after a set time.

  • Quietly, Palantir has already vacated several of the buildings it used to fill.

  • In January, employees were forced to vacate for asbestos violations.

  • It was purchased to house city employees after Sempra vacated it.

  • There is wide consensus among attorneys that adoptive parents can vacate an adoption if acts of fraud were committed.

  • Despite her attempt to vacate the valley and dismantle all its comforts, in the public mind she remains firmly rooted there.

  • Were Donetsk separatists now going to give up their weapons and vacate the occupied buildings?

  • Prabhakar is politely being asked to vacate his city and his home.

  • For their part, the revolutionaries say they are not going to vacate any more buildings.

  • At the latter date all artists were obliged to vacate the Sorbonne ateliers to make room for some new department of instruction.

  • The Duke, however, was of opinion that Mr. Grey should not vacate his seat till the day of his going was at any rate fixed.

  • The home which they vacate by chance they may re-enter and even re-occupy, but never the home which they are forced to leave.

  • It was decided to vacate the house in Tedworth Square and go to Switzerland for the summer.

  • It is not the dead who vacate the premises in favour of the living, but the latter accommodate themselves to the dead.

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