Usually means: Absence or deficiency of something.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lack: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lack: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lack: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lack, lack: Wordnik
  7. lack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lack: Wiktionary
  9. lack, lack-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lack: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lack, lack: Dictionary.com
  13. lack (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lack (Porno Graffitti song), Lack (manque): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lack: Rhymezone
  19. Lack (m), lack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lack: Free Dictionary
  22. lack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lack: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. lack: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. lack: Legal dictionary

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  1. LACK: Acronym Finder
  2. lack: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lack, lack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lack: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
noun:  (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
verb:  (transitive, stative) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
verb:  (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
verb:  (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
noun:  Archaic form of lakh. [One hundred thousand rupees.]

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