Usually means: Falling behind the current pace.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. lagging: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lagging, lagging, lagging: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lagging: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lagging: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lagging: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lagging, lagging: Wordnik
  7. lagging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lagging: Wiktionary
  9. lagging: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lagging: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lagging: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lagging, lagging: Dictionary.com
  13. lagging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Lagging (epidemiology), Lagging: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lagging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lagging: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lagging: Rhymezone
  18. Lagging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lagging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. lagging: Free Dictionary
  21. lagging: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lagging: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Lagging: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. lagging: Legal dictionary
  4. Lagging: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lagging: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. lagging: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lagging: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lagging: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lagging: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lagging: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See lag as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  falling behind, not keeping up the pace
adjective:  Occurring after; indicating the later phase of
noun:  The covering of something with strips of felt, wood etc, either as insulation or for protection.
noun:  The material so used.
noun:  (slang, countable) A prison sentence, originally one of at least three years.

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