lag1 verblag2 noun
laglag1 /læɡ/ ●○○ verb (past tense and past participle lagged, present participle lagging) 
WORD ORIGINlag1
Origin:
1500-1600 Probably from a Scandinavian languageVERB TABLE
lag
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | lag |
| he, she, it | lags | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | lagged |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have lagged |
| he, she, it | has lagged | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had lagged |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will lag |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have lagged |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am lagging |
| he, she, it | is lagging | |
| you, we, they | are lagging | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was lagging |
| you, we, they | were lagging | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been lagging |
| he, she, it | has been lagging | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been lagging |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be lagging |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been lagging |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- This year, private fund-raising for the museum has lagged.
- Agriculture was lagging behind the general prosperity levels.
- At the same time in October, 56. 4 percent of companies beat estimates while just 32. 2 percent lagged.
- Cyclical, industrial stocks lagged badly amid disappointing earnings and worries about flagging economic growth.
- In the total absence of black dancers, Covent Garden lags behind other ballet companies in the West.
- Nails was ahead but Hoomey was lagging.
- Some sectors, moreover, lagged behind completely, by force of circumstances or on account of reluctance to abandon traditional ways.
- Therapeutics may lag behind, possibly for decades, so I will abstain from discussing these aspects here.
Longman Language Activatorto move more slowly than the other people
to move more slowly than the other people you are with, so that you become separated from them: · A half an hour into the hike, two of the boys had already fallen behind.· The ship was so slow it dropped far behind the rest of the convoy.
to walk or move more slowly than other people in the group you are with: · He deliberately lagged behind so he could have a cigarette.· We started walking faster, not wanting to lag behind the rest of the group.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I’m suffering from jet lag but I’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
1[intransitive, transitive] to move or develop more slowly than otherslag behind I’m suffering from jet lag but I’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep.· This was because according to Morgan kin terms lag behind.· The nation overall made more progress during the 1990s than did large cities, which lagged behind in almost every measure.· Therapeutics may lag behind, possibly for decades, so I will abstain from discussing these aspects here.· Some sectors, moreover, lagged behind completely, by force of circumstances or on account of reluctance to abandon traditional ways.· Commercial people lagged behind, but they were ahead of the textile workers, the first working-class group to show strong limitation.· Her good readers are voracious and read their weight in books every week, while the slow readers lag behind.· In every area of skills training Britain lags behind.· But in other ways the colony lagged behind, especially when government expenditure was at stake.
She stopped to wait for Ian who was lagging behind. Britain is lagging behind the rest of Europe.2[transitive] British English to cover water pipes etc with a special material to prevent the water inside them from freezing or the heat from being lost: We’ve had the hot-water tank lagged.lag1 verblag2 noun
laglag2 noun [countable] EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Another lag, for example, is that between changes in instruments and the achievement of the employment and prices objectives.
- But for a lag in publication caused by the war, his volume would have missed the story of the camps.
- But there will inevitably be time lags and imprecision in the process.
- No time lag should come between demand and supply.
- The jet lag induces a mild form of hallucination.
- With a variable lag the Fed would have to know the lag for each specific case in which it is considering policy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a time lagCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES I’m suffering from jet lag but I’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
a delay or period of waiting between one event and a second event: a time lag I’m suffering from jet lag but I’ll feel better after a good night’s sleep.· But in a way that time lag, though it could be frustrating, was also a blessing in disguise.· As Chapter 4 noted, the average time lag between daily use and first contact with an agency was 2.6 years.· But there will inevitably be time lags and imprecision in the process.· No time lag should come between demand and supply.· The time lag in the nocturnal response is quite marked - averages point nine plus of a second greater.· That there was a time lag heartened me.· It is difficult to make a case that the time lag in getting innovations to the market-place has decreased in recent years.
a time lag → jet lag, old lag