Usually means: Negligent or loose in fulfillment.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lax: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lax: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lax: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lax, lax: Wordnik
  7. lax: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. LAX, Lax, lax: Wiktionary
  9. lax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lax: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lax: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. LAX: Dictionary.com
  13. lax (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lax: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. L.A.X, L.A.X (musician), LAX (TV series), LAX (album), LAX (disambiguation), LAX, Lax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lax: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lax: Rhymezone
  19. lax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. LAX, lax: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. lax: Free Dictionary
  23. lax: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Lax, lax: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. lax: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lax-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lax: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAX: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. lax: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. lax: Medical dictionary
  3. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAX: Acronym Finder
  2. LAX: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. lax: Rhododendron Glossary
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Lax: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. L.A.X: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See laxation as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (now chiefly UK dialectal, Scotland) A salmon.
adjective:  Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
adjective:  Loose; not tight or taut.
adjective:  Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
adjective:  (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
adjective:  (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
adjective:  (linguistics) (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
noun:  (slang) lacrosse.
noun:  Los Angeles International Airport
noun:  A surname.

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