VAGRANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vagrancy mean? 

• VAGRANCY (noun)
  The noun VAGRANCY has 1 sense:

1. the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood

  Familiarity information: VAGRANCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VAGRANCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("vagrancy" is a kind of...):

homelessness (the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets))

Derivation:

vagrant (continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another)

 Context examples 

The crime of not earning a living, in their case, is called vagrancy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)