Ls Definition & Meaning

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  • LS 1 American
    1. left side.

    2. letter signed.

    3. library science.

    4. lightship.

    L.S. 2 American

    abbreviation

    1. Licentiate in Surgery.

    2. Linnaean Society.

    3. the place of the seal, as on a document; locus sigilli. Also l.s.

    LS 1 British

    abbreviation

    1. Lesotho (international car registration)

    "Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 ls 2 British

    abbreviation

    1. (on a document) the place of the seal

    "Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 ls 3 British

    abbreviation

    1. Lesotho

    "Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

    Etymology

    Origin of ls

    from Latin locus sigilli

    Example Sentences

    Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

    NRG is aiming to close its own significant expansion in early 2026, finalizing a nearly $12 billion acquisition of a portfolio of natural gas-generation facilities from energy infrastructure company LS Power Equity Advisors.

    From Barron's

    We closed or merged 1,400 savings-and-loan associations in the 1980s largely because the risk embedded in consumer-friendly 30-year fixed-rate assumable mortgages made at 7% detonated in the hands of the S&Ls when rates rocketed to 21.5%.

    From The Wall Street Journal

    Beware the three Ls: leverage, liquidity and lunacy.

    From MarketWatch

    Their spending included almost £1m on home, garden and stable improvements, £185,000 on art, including a pencil sketch by the artist LS Lowry, and £26,000 on private jet hire.

    From BBC

    A signed LS Lowry print showing a town's now-vanished level crossing has sold at auction just a few miles away from the scene it depicts.

    From BBC

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