英语词汇“vacate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINvacate

Origin:

1600-1700 Latin past participle of vacare; ➔ VACANT

VERB TABLE

vacate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	vacate
	he, she, it	vacates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	vacated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have vacated
	he, she, it	has vacated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had vacated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will vacate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have vacated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am vacating
	he, she, it	is vacating
	you, we, they	are vacating
Past	I, he, she, it	was vacating
	you, we, they	were vacating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been vacating
	he, she, it	has been vacating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been vacating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be vacating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been vacating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Guests are requested to vacate their rooms before 12 o'clock on the day of departure.
Renters have refused to vacate the building.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

But Frank was sitting in the chair I had vacated.
If not re-appointed at such annual general meeting he shall vacate office at the conclusion thereof.
No fool, Celia remembered thinking, as she drove them both back to the home she was soon to vacate.
The newly inserted clause in the lease required a tenant to vacate the premises on 90 days notice.
The sappers crept a little closer, past the vacated ambush site.
There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody.

Longman Language Activatorto permanently leave the house where you live► leave

to leave your home or the area where you live: · This has been such a lovely home - I'll be sorry to leave.· He left his hometown when he was 16, and he hasn't been back there since.· Thousands of people have already left the capital in order to get away from the fighting.

► move out

to permanently leave your home, usually one you rent or share with someone else, taking all your possessions with you: · If the landlord raises the rent again, we'll just have to move out.· Diana and I aren't together any more. I've moved out.move out of: · Tom moved out of his apartment in Toronto last month.

► leave home

if a young person leaves home , they leave their parents' house because they think they are old enough to live on their own: · Gwen had left home at 18 to find a job in New York.· The house is getting too big for us now that both the children have left home.· Jane was sure that her decision to leave home and marry Joe was the right one.

► run away

if a young person runs away , they secretly leave their parents' home or the place where they are living because they are very unhappy there: · I ran away at the age of twelve, but my Dad came and found me at the bus station before I could leave town.run away to: · At the age of fifteen, Malcolm ran away to California.run away from home: · Thousands of children run away from home each year.

► vacate

a word used especially in hotels, on notices etc meaning to leave the room or house you have been staying in, taking all your possessions with you: · Guests are requested to vacate their rooms before 12 o'clock on the day of departure.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► office

· If not re-appointed at such annual general meeting he shall vacate office at the conclusion thereof.

► premises

· The group that has used the old Cooking Centre has had to vacate the premises but so far nothing has happened.· It has since agreed to relocate, vacating its city-owned premises by mid-November.· The newly inserted clause in the lease required a tenant to vacate the premises on 90 days notice.· There were a thousand and one immaterial reasons to vacate the premises, not the least of which being Mr Mackenzie himself.

► seat

· The Conservative margin is expected to be reduced to one after two upcoming elections are held to fill vacated seats.