Usually means: Deficient or missing in something.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. lacks: Merriam-Webster
  2. lacks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lacks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lack's, Lacks, lacks: Wordnik
  5. lacks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lacks: Wiktionary
  7. lacks: Dictionary.com
  8. lacks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Lacks: Rhymezone
  10. lacks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lacks: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lacks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lacks)

▸ noun:  A surname

Similar:
deficiency, want, miss, Lackie, lackey, Lacko, needs, poor, Wady, scarce, more...

Opposite:
abounds, possesses, has, contains, holds

Phrases:
Henrietta Lacks, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, what a plane lacks, it lacks refinement, lacks carbon, more...



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Similar:
deficiency, want, miss, Lackie, lackey, Lacko, needs, poor, Wady, scarce, more...

Opposite:
abounds, possesses, has, contains, holds

Phrases:
Henrietta Lacks, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, what a plane lacks, it lacks refinement, lacks carbon, something a slacker lacks, lacks the ability, what someone lacks, lacks verity, more...



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