vacate

desocupar

Dejar una vivienda, habitación u otro inmueble para que otra persona pueda ocuparlo.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Sinónimos: leave, move out of

Antónimos: occupy

Expresiones frecuentes: vacate a room, vacate the premises, vacate a house

anular

Dicho de un tribunal, dejar oficialmente sin efecto una decisión u orden.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: set aside, annul, overturn

Antónimos: uphold

Expresiones frecuentes: vacate a judgment, vacate an order, vacate a conviction

dejar, abandonar

Dejar un empleo o cargo oficial para que otra persona pueda ocuparlo.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: leave, resign from, step down from

Expresiones frecuentes: vacate a position, vacate office, vacate a seat

evacuar, abandonar

Salir de una zona, normalmente por orden de las autoridades para protegerse.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: leave, evacuate

Expresiones frecuentes: vacate the area, vacate the street, vacate the zone