0 present participle of lapse
1 to end legally or officially by not being continued or made effective for a longer period:
The association needs to win back former members who have allowed their subscriptions to lapse.
Preliminary figures for stakeholder pensions show similar levels of lapsing.
After all, if book historians do not concern themselves with the difference that reading makes to people's lives and attitudes, they risk lapsing into antiquarianism.
In this sense, the danger of a cultivation of cultural diversity and a 'vibrant' nightlife lapsing into a middle-class sameness remains real.
The post-invasion period after 1634 also saw the lapsing of almsgiving and a temporary end to the collection, curtailing a trend towards more organized, assessed collection.
By the same token, the book as a whole strikes a neat balance between comprehensiveness and depth, covering over five hundred years of the instrument's progress without lapsing into superficiality.
Bethin's bibliography (302-346) is also thorough, although occasionally lapsing out of alphabetical order.
In a quarter of cases, the reason cited for lapsing was to do with the product (poor performance, disappointment with the sale, or a feeling that the product wasn't right).
This country has a record of unsurpassed achievement in the sciences that was in danger of lapsing.
