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verb (used without object)
1.
to fail to maintain a desired pace or to keep up; fall or stay behind: After five minutes of hard running, some of them began to lag.
2.
to move or develop slowly, as toward a goal or objective, or in relation to an associated factor (often followed by behind): to lag behind in production.
3.
to delay or fail in reaching full development: The factory lags regularly in making its quota.
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to hang back; linger; delay: The old friends lagged because they wanted to talk some more.
5.
EXPANDto decrease, wane, or flag gradually, as in intensity: Interest lagged as the meeting went on.
verb (used with object)
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to fail to keep up with: The industry still lags the national economy.
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Obsolete. to cause to lag.
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Lag behind
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
noun
10.
a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
11.
a person who lags behind, is the last to arrive, etc.
12.
an interval or lapse of time: There was a developmental lag in the diffusion of ideas.
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Mechanics. the amount of retardation of some motion.
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EXPANDElectricity. the retardation of one alternating quantity, as current, with respect to another related alternating quantity, as voltage, often expressed in degrees.
Origin:
1505–15; < Scandinavian: compare Norwegian lagga to go slowly
1505–15; < Scandinavian: compare Norwegian lagga to go slowly
Synonyms
1. loiter, linger. 10. slowing, slowdown.
1. loiter, linger. 10. slowing, slowdown.
Antonyms
1. hasten.
1. hasten.
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Word Origin & History
lag
"fail to keep pace," 1520s, from earlier adj. meaning "last" (1510s), e.g. lag-mon "last man," possibly from a Scand. source (cf. Norw. lagga "go slowly"), or some dialectal version of last, lack, or delay. Related: Lag; lagging. First record of lag time is from 1956.
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