Usually means: Temporary failures in memory or judgment.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. lapses: Merriam-Webster
  2. lapses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lapses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lapses, lapses: Wordnik
  5. lapses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lapses: Wiktionary
  7. lapses: Dictionary.com
  8. lapses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. lapses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lapses: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. lapses: Legal dictionary
  3. lapses: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lapses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lapses: Medical dictionary

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  1. lapses: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lapse)

noun:  A temporary failure; a slip.
noun:  A decline or fall in standards.
noun:  A pause in continuity.
noun:  An interval of time between events.
noun:  A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
noun:  (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
noun:  (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
noun:  (theology) A fall or apostasy.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
verb:  To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
verb:  (intransitive) To become void.
verb:  To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
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