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lag·gard
/
ˈlæg
ərd
/
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[
lag
-erd
]
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noun
1.
a person or thing that
lags
; lingerer; loiterer.
adjective
2.
moving, developing, or responding slowly; sluggish; dilatory; backward.
Origin:
1695–1705;
lag
1
+
-ard
Related forms
lag·gard·ness,
noun
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laggard
(ˈlæɡəd)
—
n
1.
a person who lags behind
2.
a dawdler or straggler
—
adj
3.
rare
sluggish, slow, or dawdling
'laggardly
—
adv
'laggardness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
laggard
1702, from
lag
(v.) +
-ard
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Its economy is in the doldrums, the
laggard
of the euro area.
Except for a
laggard
quality in the ballet movements, it moves with a
mettlesome step.
For so long a
laggard
in the euro area, its economy is now growing faster than
the regional average.
It once more finds itself surrounded by doubt and dismissed as a
laggard
.
But the company is saddled with an awful public image as the perennial
laggard
.
It will be novel, combining advance technology with
laggard
infrastructure.
They also ask whether regulation slows the rate at which
laggard
countries close the gap between themselves and the leaders.
We are simultaneously the leader and the
laggard
among our peers-almost always exceptional, almost never in the middle.
They produced brown and red pottery of simple form but were generally
laggard
in the development of arts and crafts.
Third, a technological
laggard
must be likely to develop.
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