nonoccupation

English

Etymology

non- +‎ occupation

Noun

nonoccupation (uncountable)

1. Absence of occupation; the situation where a territory etc. is not occupied.
   • 2015 July 15, Vera Brust et al., “Determinants of between-year burrow re-occupation in a colony of the European bee-eater Merops apiaster”, in Ecology and Evolution‎^[1], volume 5, →DOI:

     Black coloration denotes occupation, white coloration nonoccupation, and X that a burrow had not yet or not any more existed in the respective year.