lax
Regulators said that the bank has shown laxity in screening customers.
There is a growing laxity among parents as regards underage drinking.
Given the laxity of security, many aviation specialists believe that all major airports are vulnerable breaches.
Laxity about safer sex could lead to an upturn in HIV infections.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not paying attention
absent
absent-minded
absent-mindedly
absent-mindedness
absently
drop/lower your guardidiom
escape someone's notice
faraway
glazed
gnat
merrily
misfocus
moment
moony
not take a blind bit of noticeidiom
sideline
unmindful
unwarily
unwary
zone out

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Weakness and vulnerability

Examples of laxity

laxity
Political economists and political scientists have offered a plethora of explanations for why competition in laxity remains rare in environmental and consumer policy.
The other highlights rent-seeking as a major driving force, implying that regulatory laxity is rare because rentseeking is omnipresent.
For example, theories of competition in regulatory laxity and public choice theory assume that industry interests tend to dominate over consumer (or public) interests.
At the same time, interviews and clinical examinations were performed to elicit possible symptoms associated with increasing pelvic laxity.
Worse, it would expose local society to moral and political laxity that its enemies would exploit.
Since laxity in public enforcement is a perennial problem5 in developing countries, it is difficult to measure this relationship in such contexts.
One emphasizes competition in laxity, the other highlights rentseeking as a driver of regulation.
For example, as police commissioner, with reporters at hand, he would stalk the roughest neighborhoods at night, ferreting out criminals and police laxity.
As noted above, local politicians there play an important role in tax enforcement, and tax collection is characterised by greater laxity.
The morality of the gentry is opposed to this laxity.
Many authors have argued that particularly in integrated (open) markets states get drawn into a competition in regulatory laxity.
The informality of the mechanisms for imposing social sanctions permitted a measure of laxity.
This explains the alternating severity and laxity of the registration mechanism in the periods 1872- 1902 and 1917-26.
Why is there very little competition in laxity?
Elections have promoted fiscal laxity.
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