Roles, jobs, or offices

• Laity
  Laity
  In religious organizations, the laity comprises all people who are not in the clergy. A person who is a member of a religious order who is not ordained legitimate clergy is considered as a member of the laity, even though they are members of a religious order .In the past in Christian cultures, the...
  
  , persons in a religious organization who are not members of the clergy
• Lay magistrate, magistrates who are not trained in legal technicalities
• Lay judge
  Lay judge
  A lay judge is a person assisting a judge in a trial. Lay judges are used in some civil law jurisdictions, such as Germany, Sweden and Finland. Japan began implementing a new lay judge system in 2009....
  
  , a person assisting a judge in some jurisdictions
• Lay assessor
  Lay assessor
  Lay assessors are used by the government of the United Kingdom to evaluate the quality of service provided by government agencies to the public and citizens of the United Kingdom....
  
  , a government position in the United Kingdom, Sweden, or Japan
• Layperson, a person without specialist professional training

Geography

• Lay, Ardabil
  Lay, Ardabil
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  , a village in Iran
• Lay, Loire
  Lay, Loire
  Lay is a commune in the Loire department in central France....
  
  , a French commune in the Loire department
• Lay, Kansas, an unincorporated community in the United States

• Lay (river)
  Lay (river)
  The Lay is a long river in the Vendée département, western France. Its source is at Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin. It flows generally southwest. It flows into the Bay of Biscay between La Faute-sur-Mer and L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, northwest of La Rochelle....
  
  , in France

Other uses

• Lay's
  Lay's
  Lay's is the brand name for a number of potato chip varieties as well as the name of the company that founded the chip brand in 1932. Lay's chips has been marketed as a division of Frito-Lay, a company owned by PepsiCo since 1965...
  
  , a potato-chip brand name and company
• Lay confession
  Lay confession
  -Roman Catholic view:From the Roman Catholic standpoint, lay confession is of historical interest only.It is found under two forms: first, confession without relation to the sacrament, second, confession intended to supply for the sacrament in case of necessity...
  
  , a religious confession made to a member of the laity
• Lay time or lay days, time allowed in a charter for the loading or discharge of a ship
• A short ballad
  Ballad
  A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...