The process of vacating a property is sometimes confused with evacuating a place. ALthough they are related terms, they are used in different contexts.
Vacate means that someone removes property items from a piece of real property in the process of relocation, that is when someone leaves a place where he/she lived. Vacating a property is a legal term, which is most frequently used in lease context.
Evacuate is a military term used for leaving an area or withdrawing from a settlement or military establishment by military forces or sometimes civilians. Evacuation is most frequently related to some kind of hazard for which the occupying forces of inhabitants must leave the place.
