lag
verb/læɡ/
/læɡ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they lag | /læɡ/ /læɡ/ |
| he / she / it lags | /læɡz/ /læɡz/ |
| past simple lagged | /læɡd/ /læɡd/ |
| past participle lagged | /læɡd/ /læɡd/ |
| -ing form lagging | /ˈlæɡɪŋ/ /ˈlæɡɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] lag (behind somebody/something) | lag (behind) to move or develop slowly or more slowly than other people, organizations, etc. synonym trail
- The little boy lagged behind his parents.
- We still lag far behind many of our competitors in using modern technology.
Extra Examples- Catering salaries lag far behind those of other sectors.
- She did well in her first year at school but then started to lag behind.
- The Tories are still lagging way behind in the opinion polls.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- badly
- seriously
- well
- …
- behind
- lag far behind (somebody/something)
- lag way behind (somebody/something)
- lag well behind (somebody/something)
- …
- [transitive] lag something (with something) (British English) to cover pipes, etc. with a special material to stop the water in them from freezing, or to stop heat from escaping synonym insulate
Word Originverb sense 1 early 16th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘hindmost person in a game, race, etc.’, also ‘dregs’): related to the dialect adjective lag (perhaps from a fanciful distortion of last, or of Scandinavian origin: compare with Norwegian dialect lagga ‘go slowly’). verb sense 2 late 19th cent.: from earlier lag ‘piece of insulating cover’.
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