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  • 41Lag — For other uses, see Lag (disambiguation). Lag is a common word meaning to fail to keep up or to fall behind.[1] In real time applications, the term is used when the application fails to respond in a timely fashion to inputs.[2][3] The most common …

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  • 42Lag — Payment of a financial obligation later than is expected or required, as in lead and lag. Also, the number of periods that an independent variable in a regression model is held back in order to predict the dependent variable. The New York Times… …

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  • 43lag — Payment of a financial obligation later than is expected or required, as in lead and lag. Also, the number of periods that an dependent variable in a regression model is held back in order to predict the dependent variable. Bloomberg Financial… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 44lag — 1. To move or progress more slowly than normal; to fall behind. 2. The act or condition of falling behind. 3. The time interval between a change in one variable and a consequent change in another variable. anaphase l. slowing or …

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  • 45lag — lag1 /lag/, v., lagged, lagging, n. v.i. 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… …

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  • 46lag — I UK [læɡ] / US verb Word forms lag : present tense I/you/we/they lag he/she/it lags present participle lagging past tense lagged past participle lagged 1) [intransitive] to not be as successful or advanced as another person, organization, or… …

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  • 47lag — I [[t]læg[/t]] v. lagged, lag•ging, n. 1) to fail to maintain a desired pace or speed: to lag behind in production[/ex] 2) to linger; delay 3) to decrease gradually; flag: Interest lagged as the meeting went on[/ex] 4) gam to throw one s shooting …

    From formal English to slang

  • 48lag — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun Lag is used after these nouns: ↑time {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb ADVERB ▪ badly, seriously, well ▪ behind ▪ She did well in her fir …

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  • 49lag — lag1 [ læg ] verb 1. ) intransitive to not be as successful or advanced as other organizations or groups: TRAIL: Recent opinion polls showed the Republicans to be lagging by 13%. lag behind: Their software tends to lag behind other producers. 2.… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 50lag — English has three distinct words lag. The verb ‘fall behind’ [16] is perhaps of Scandinavian origin (Norwegian has lagga ‘go slowly’), 303 language although a link has been suggested with the lag of fog, seg, lag, a dialect expression used in… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins