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say it: VAY-kayt
vacate is a verb meaning "leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily". It is pronounced /ˈveɪkeɪt/ — VAY-kayt. It carries 3 recorded senses.
leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
“She vacated the position when she got pregnant”
“The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds”
leave behind empty; move out of
“You must vacate your office by tonight”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vacate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.