Casual vacancy

The vacancy (Latin vacans, empty ',' empty '; adjective vacant) called an office or a job that is not currently occupied and has been issued for replacement.

Especially in the official language of the Church, the term is employed. Traditionally refers to the times in which a parish touting the pastorate, as vacancy time. If existing parishes should no longer be occupied, they are called dauervakant.

In the vacancy of a bishopric (especially of the Apostolic See ) is called the period of vacancy.

In ancient, late antique or Byzantine offices of the Additional vacans ( the plural: vacantes ) could be used to honoring to entrust persons with a service which they then effectively, or at least not perceived in the actual meaning. Examples: tribunus vacans, Masters of the Soldiers vacantes.

Further use

• Previously, the term vacancy also called the school holidays (see dutch vakantie, french vacances, English in the U.S. holiday, Polish wakacje ). In Luxembourg it is still like that.
• In sports, the term is also vacant before. There he is then usually that a title is not currently assigned, such as the World Championship title in boxing or wrestling.
• In crystallography is called with a vacant space in the crystal structure.
• In politics, the term is applied to the part not occupied for entire election periods political offices, such as the British Deputy Prime Minister was in the period from 1955 to now six times, partially vacant up to 16 years.
• In labor economics is ( to be filled -free / ) of vacant training places and vacancies spoken in the labor market.