Words / L / Business

lapping

noun/ˈlæpɪŋ/

C1CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

A fraud in which a receipt from one customer is used to conceal the earlier theft of another customer's payment.

The overdue-account pattern was a classic sign of lapping in the accounts-receivable function.

Topic: Accounting in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

Get words like lapping on your lock screen, a few a day, with review that makes them stick.

Download on the App Store Lexfall puts a new word on your home and lock screen through widgets, so you learn without opening an app. Free to download. After a free trial, a subscription unlocks every field. Built for iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
QR code that opens Lexfall on the App Store
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera.

More business words: Accounting