"vacant state" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is most often used to describe a situation in which a position or title is unoccupied or empty. For example, "The chief of staff position in the office is currently in a vacant state."
In 2007, he unsuccessfully sought appointment to the vacant state comptroller's job after Alan G. Hevesi's resignation.
Another drawback is maintaining the building, which — even in its current vacant state — costs about $2.5 million annually for utilities, maintenance and security.
The sales percentage wasn't that high at Russo & Steele's 200,000-square-foot auction tent on vacant state land in northeast Scottsdale.
Edwin A. Gomes, a Democratic councilman from Bridgeport, won the special election on Monday to fill the vacant State Senate seat of Ernest Newton III in the 23rd District.
Gov. Gray Davis announced today that he was extending a statewide hiring freeze and eliminating as many as 20,000 vacant state positions for an immediate savings of $250 million, which would pay about one day's operating expenses.
A1 New Senator for East Side Liz Krueger, a Democrat, beat Assemblyman John Ravitz, a Republican, in a special election for the vacant State Senate seat that was held for more than 30 years by Roy M. Goodman, a Republican.
Host governments usually claim the farmland they offer is vacant, state-owned property.
A prosecutor cannot sue the state to force it to tear down vacant, state-owned houses that become drug havens, a judge ruled.
The danger is particularly serious in the squatter villages that have sprung up on vacant state-owned land to accommodate the influx from rural areas.
Actually, the lattice vibration of O ions essentially pushes the electrons towards vacant states in the Mn ion inducing a local distortion of the lattice.
This is attributable to a reaction between the reducing gas molecules and adsorbed negative oxygen species occurring more easily than the oxygen to overcome the barrier to repopulating the vacant states of the oxide surfaces after desorption of oxygen on exposure to a reducing gas ambient [28].
