vacant lot
noun
: a piece of land that is not being used
The children played in the vacant lot between the two buildings.
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While the actual gunfight took place in a vacant lot behind the corral, the property was expanded and now includes the original site.
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Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
An environmental organization is partnering with a Detroit nonprofit to revitalize a vacant lot.
—Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2025
Pocket park The roughly 2,100-square-foot public space on Soledad Avenue would be next to a 4,494-square-foot single-family house planned for a currently vacant lot just east of the intersection of Soledad and Cowrie Avenue.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
Born above a liquor store in 1968, the museum later took over a shuttered bank and, eventually, the vacant lot next door.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2025
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Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
An environmental organization is partnering with a Detroit nonprofit to revitalize a vacant lot.
—Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2025
Pocket park The roughly 2,100-square-foot public space on Soledad Avenue would be next to a 4,494-square-foot single-family house planned for a currently vacant lot just east of the intersection of Soledad and Cowrie Avenue.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
Born above a liquor store in 1968, the museum later took over a shuttered bank and, eventually, the vacant lot next door.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for vacant lot
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“Vacant lot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vacant%20lot. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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