[veɪˈkeɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- leave (a place that one previously occupied)
(e.g: rooms must be vacated by noon on the last day of your holiday)

- cancel or annul (a judgement, contract, or charge)
(e.g: the Justices vacated a ruling by the federal appeals court)


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Origin:
mid 17th century (as a legal term, also in the sense ‘make ineffective’): from Latin vacat- ‘left empty’, from the verb vacare