Vacate usually takes a direct object: vacate a room, vacate the office. Some prepositions can follow in specific contexts, but several combinations are nonstandard.
Use vacate directly before the place being left: vacate the building. “Vacate for” can explain a reason or replacement. “Vacate by,” “vacate on,” and “vacate to” are usually not standard verb-preposition combinations.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use vacate directly with the place, room, seat, or position being left.
Vacate can mean formally giving up a role, office, or legal position.
For can introduce the reason or the person replacing someone.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Vacate normally takes a direct object without a preposition.
✕ They vacated from the apartment. ✓ They vacated the apartment.Use another movement verb if you want to show destination.
✕ The guests vacated to the lobby. ✓ The guests moved to the lobby after vacating the room.By can show time limits after the object.
✕ They must vacate by the apartment. ✓ They must vacate the apartment by Friday.On needs a separate time or surface meaning.
✕ They vacated on the office. ✓ They vacated the office on Tuesday.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Usually no. Standard English uses vacate directly with the object: vacate the room.
Yes. By introduces a deadline after the object.
Yes. It can mean formally leaving a role, office, or seat.
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