lasts
v.v. to continue for a specific amount of time. You use this to say how long an event or a feeling stays around before it ends.
v. to continue in time; to endure or remain in existence for a specified duration. The third-person singular present form of 'last'.
The movie lasts for two hours.
The battery in this laptop usually lasts for about six hours of continuous work before it needs a charge.
While the initial excitement of a new project often lasts only a few weeks, the discipline required to see it through to completion must endure for months.
Intransitive when describing duration; often followed by a time expression or a prepositional phrase starting with 'for'.
The meeting is lasting two hours.The meeting lasts two hours.When describing a general or scheduled duration, use the present simple rather than the present continuous.