LS

¹

1. left side.

2. letter signed.

3. library science.

4. lightship.

L.S.

²

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

abbreviation

1. Lesotho (international car registration)

ls

²

abbreviation

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

ls

³

abbreviation

1. Lesotho

Word History and Origins

Origin of LS¹

from Latin locus sigilli

Example Sentences

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%.

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Beware the three Ls: leverage, liquidity and lunacy.

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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.

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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.

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Among them is the captain of the coastguard ship, the LS-920, who is charged with "causing a shipwreck", leading to the deaths of "at least 82 people".

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