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void

/vɔɪd/

B1CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Medicine verb

To empty the bladder of urine.

I asked the patient to void before the procedure and measured the amount passed.

Similar: urinate, micturate

Topic: Nursing in Medical English

Business noun

A period during which a rental property produces no income because it stands empty between tenancies.

A three-month void between lettings eroded the landlord's projected annual return.

Similar: vacancy

Topic: Real estate & property in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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