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# lac

«lac» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sum of one hundred thousand (100,000), used for large…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (lac, lacs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lac is a sum of one hundred thousand (100,000), used for large amounts of money in India. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lac/#m1)

2) A lac is a sticky red resin made by insects and used to make varnish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lac/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales a lac is a huge sum of money given as a reward for a wise word

### examples

- He offered her a lac of rupees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lac/#x1)
- A lac is a hundred thousand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lac/#x2)
- The wise man was paid a lac of rupees for his advice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lac/#x3)

### note

a lac is 100,000, so it multiplies: 2 lacs means 200,000, and it is a large unit, not a small count

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lac» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lac/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.