vacate

To leave a home, room, or other property so it is available for someone else.

• Please vacate your room by noon.
• The tenants vacated the apartment last week.
• When must we vacate the building?

Similar words: leave, move out of

Opposites: occupy

Common phrases: vacate a room, vacate the premises, vacate a house

If a court does this to a decision or order, it officially cancels it.

• The court may vacate the order.
• The judge vacated the earlier judgment.
• Her lawyer asked the court to vacate the conviction.

Similar words: set aside, annul, overturn

Opposites: uphold

Common phrases: vacate a judgment, vacate an order, vacate a conviction

To stop holding a job or official position, leaving it available for someone else.

• She will vacate her position next month.
• He vacated his seat on the council.
• The director agreed to vacate office after the election.

Similar words: leave, resign from, step down from

Common phrases: vacate a position, vacate office, vacate a seat

To leave an area, usually because officials order you to do so for safety.

• Please vacate the area immediately.
• Police ordered the crowd to vacate the street.
• Residents vacated the danger zone before the flood arrived.

Similar words: leave, evacuate

Common phrases: vacate the area, vacate the street, vacate the zone