Vagrancy is a way of life in which someone moves a lot from place to place because they have no permanent home or job, and have to ask for or steal things in order to live.
Vagrancy and begging has become common-place in London.
Synonyms: homelessness, roaming, roving, rootlessness More Synonyms of vagrancy
vagrancy in British English
(ˈveɪɡrənsɪ)
nounWord forms: plural-cies
1.
the state or condition of being a vagrant
2.
the conduct or mode of living of a vagrant
vagrancy in American English
(ˈveɪgrənsi)
nounWord forms: pluralˈvagrancies
1. Rare
a wandering in thought or talk; digression
2.
a wandering from place to place; vagabondage
3.
shiftless or idle wandering without money or work, as of tramps, beggars, etc.
often a statutory offense chargeable as a misdemeanor
Word origin
< vagrant
Examples of 'vagrancy' in a sentence
vagrancy
First I had to sit through half a dozen hearings of vagrancy.
Wood, Ted FOOLS GOLD (2001)
Once, without comment, her copperplate handwriting recorded that bail had been provided on a vagrancy charge near Houston.