laches
Meaning of laches
noun
unreasonable delay in asserting a claim, which may result in its dismissal.
late Middle English (in the sense ‘slackness, negligence’): from Old French laschesse, from lasche ‘loose, lax’, based on Latin laxus . The current sense dates from the late 16th century.
Information about laches
- It is a name.
- The singular form of laches is: lache.
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Hyphenation of laches
laches
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- laches is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of laches
Words that rhyme with laches
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