What's the difference between available and vacancy?

Available


Definition:

  • (a.) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.
  • (a.) Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (2) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
  • (3) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
  • (4) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
  • (5) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (6) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
  • (7) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (8) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
  • (9) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
  • (10) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (11) A two-year follow-up was available for fifty-nine of the treated knees.
  • (12) Cicaprost is an orally available analogue of PGI2 and has been shown to inhibit platelet aggregation in both in vitro and animal studies.
  • (13) A retrospective study examined the reactions to the termination of pregnancy for fetal malformation and the follow up services that were available.
  • (14) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
  • (15) Immunochemical techniques, in particular ELISA are available for only a very limited number of NM (e.g.
  • (16) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
  • (17) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
  • (18) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
  • (19) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
  • (20) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.

Vacancy


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.
  • (n.) That which is vacant.
  • (n.) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
  • (n.) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.
  • (n.) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.
  • (n.) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senior sources said on Monday that the vacancies had left it in effect rudderless, and unable to introduce any significant reforms.
  • (2) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
  • (3) With skills and labour shortages set to continue, there’s a risk that many vacancies will be left unfilled which could act as a brake on output growth in the UK in the years ahead.” The most recent labour market data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that while EU nationals were still arriving in the UK, they were doing so in smaller numbers than in the past.
  • (4) He believes a lack of investment in health in the region is partly to blame for the deaths, pointing to long-standing vacancies in government-run hospitals and rural centres.
  • (5) Remaining vacancies ranged from 5% of total staff in the Northeast and 3% in the Midwest to 2% in the South and 1% in the West.
  • (6) Most vacancies are now advertised over the internet and claimants are encouraged to apply online to help them prepare for the world of work.” The disclosure of the revenue generated by BT came after the Observer revealed that 85% of benefit fraud allegations made by the public to a telephone hotline or online over the last five years were false.
  • (7) As there are no vacancies at Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal, this may mean he has to look abroad – or accept that a potential move to Liverpool and Everton, two domestic clubs who may be interested, would mean not playing in the European Cup.
  • (8) The Falkirk vacancy emerged when the MP Eric Joyce was kicked out of the party after committing an assault in a House of Commons bar.
  • (9) These correspond to the ordering processes by the migration and the annihilation of quenched-in excess vacancies, the annihilation of secondary defects and the diffusion of equilibrium vacancies, respectively.
  • (10) Current full-time equivalent registered nurse staff vacancy rates are also reported in relation to these differing assessments.
  • (11) Finally, we try to recruit and mentor likely candidates for current or future vacancies.
  • (12) This, he said, involved employers advertising vacancies far and wide, speaking to candidates of all ages and backgrounds, and then choosing the one that most reminded them of themselves.
  • (13) In 2015 the service was short of 50,000 staff, a 6% vacancy rate, and was becoming increasingly reliant on expensive agency staff to plug gaps in rotas.
  • (14) To investigate applications for general practice partnership vacancies by established general practitioner principals, the reasons for changing partnerships, and the disincentives to these moves.
  • (15) His remarks came as the Republican leadership in the US Senate remained steadfast in its opposition to filling the supreme court vacancy under Obama’s watch.
  • (16) He believes the six-week ban would be so dramatic that even the supreme court would vote 5-4 to strike it down, even if another conservative justice were confirmed to replace the vacancy on the court.
  • (17) Average pay growth for Britain’s workers is likely to stall at about 2% in 2016, as the ready availability of migrants makes it easy for employers to fill vacancies, according to a forecast of the labour market.
  • (18) This article tries to describe the problems, difficulties and setbacks experienced by patients, doctors, psychologists or social workers when looking for a public health insurance body competent to bear the cost, as well as for a vacancy in a suitable hospital or institution where appropriate therapy can be effected.
  • (19) The medical residence programs are, with 68% of 9,644 total vacancies, considerably concentrated in the Southeast region.
  • (20) As Bauckham cautions, though, however much schools are prepared to pay for headhunting, the problem of filling vacancies will persist until more fundamental issues about the shortage of candidates are addressed.