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What does the word lack mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To be destitute of; be deficient; fail.

Part of speech: noun

Absence or deficiency of something; want; failure.

Usage examples for lack

I think the lack in your life is that you have known so few women; men and women can never understand each other, of course; but they have got to live together and work together; and one ought to live with people whom one does not understand. – Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson
There is one at the back, but I have never yet opened that, for lack of a key. – A Set of Rogues by Frank Barrett