lazy pronoun

In GRAMMAR and SEMANTICS, a term sometimes used for a usage (quite common in informal speech) where there is an imprecise match between a PRONOUN and its ANTECEDENT; also called pronoun of laziness. For example, in X wears her hat every day of the week. Y wears it only on Sundays, the it in the second sentence should more precisely be hers. In such cases, the pronoun is being interpreted as equivalent to a repetition of the antecedent, even though it is not CO-REFERENTIAL with it.