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va·gran·cy

 (vā′grən-sē)
n. pl. va·gran·cies
1.
a. The state of being a vagrant.
b. The conduct or mode of existence of a vagrant.
c. The offense of being a vagrant: arrested for vagrancy.
2. An erratic notion or unpredictable action: the vagrancies of the heart.
3. An unpredictable development or change of circumstances: the vagrancies of the book business.
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vagrancy

(ˈveɪɡrənsɪ)
n, pl -cies
1. the state or condition of being a vagrant
2. the conduct or mode of living of a vagrant
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va•gran•cy

(ˈveɪ grən si)

n., pl. -cies.
1. the state or condition of being a vagrant.
2. the conduct of a vagrant.
3. reverie.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.vagrancy - the state of wandering from place to placevagrancy - the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood
homelessness - the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets)
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vagrancy

noun homelessness, roaming, roving, rootlessness, nomadism, itinerancy, vagabondism Vagrancy and begging are commonplace in London.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Translations
تَشَرُّد
potulkatoulání
vagabondering
csavargás
flækingur, flækingslíf
potulka
avarelikserserilik

vagrancy

[ˈveɪgrənsɪ] N → vagancia f, vagabundeo m
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vagrancy

[ˈveɪgrənsi] n → vagabondage m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

vagrancy

n → Land-/Stadtstreicherei f (also Jur)
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vagrancy

[ˈveɪgr/ənsɪ] n → vagabondaggio
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

vagrant

(ˈveigrənt) noun
a person who has no fixed home; a tramp.
ˈvagrancy noun
the state of being a vagrant. Vagrancy is a crime in some countries.
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I didn't care for the drinking, nor the vagrancy of it, and I wandered back to the Oakland Free Library and read the books with greater understanding.
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Our instructed vagrancy, which was hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans,--which is nourished on books of travel and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi,--can hardly get a dim notion of what an old-fashioned man like Tulliver felt for this spot, where all his memories centred, and where life seemed like a familiar smooth-handled tool that the fingers clutch with loving ease.
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"'Yes, master, and I've never been in it much.' (I had come out of Kingston Jail last on a vagrancy committal.
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And even there they were frustrated, for stringent vagrancy laws were passed and rigidly enforced.
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The task of recalling him from the vagrancy into which he always sank when he had spoken, was like recalling some very weak person from a swoon, or endeavouring, in the hope of some disclosure, to stay the spirit of a fast-dying man.
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Jon Sparkes, chief executive of Crisis, said: "The continued practice of criminalising homeless people under the Vagrancy Act is a disgrace.
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Mr Jamieson said: "I am deeply concerned about the use of the Vagrancy Act.
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Crisis, Cymorth Cymru, Homeless Link, Shelter Cymru, St Mungo's, the Wallich and all the #ScraptheAct campaign supporters are calling for the Vagrancy Act be scrapped.
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The presumption then was that the vagrant was up to no good and was possibly on a mission to steal.This precolonial legislation took its life from the Vagrancy Act of the United Kingdom.
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