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lax
1. n. (now chiefly UK dialectal Scotland) A salmon.
2. adj. Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
3. adj. Loose; not tight or taut.
The rope fell lax.
4. adj. Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
5. adj. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
6. adj. (maths) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
7. n. (lbl, en, slang) Lacrosse.

Example Sentences

Government inspectors had been lax in their oversight because they had assumed that a chain reaction could never happen in such a small plant.  Apparently they have both been lax in school work, partially inattention.  Sitting on my stair, I saw the remnants of a broken bottle outside lying at the bodies knee, the neck of it still lax in the hand and deepening in colour from red to black.

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