Antonyms for lag
læglag

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1. lagadjective

   late

   Synonyms:
   latency

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1. lag

   Antonyms:
   press, hasten, speedup, hurry, stir

   Synonyms:
   loiter, linger, saunter, dally, tarry, idle

Matched Categories

1. • Confine
   • Cover
   • Delay
   • Law
   • Time Interval
   • Toss

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1. slowdown, lag, retardationnoun

   the act of slowing down or falling behind

   Synonyms:
   slowness, meantime, backwardness, retardent, subnormality, interim, slowdown, retardant, mental retardation, slowing, meanwhile, deceleration, stave, retardation

2. interim, meantime, meanwhile, lagnoun

   the time between one event, process, or period and another

   "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"

   Synonyms:
   interim, stave, slowdown, retardation, meantime, meanwhile

3. stave, lagverb

   one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

   Synonyms:
   rung, meantime, round, interim, slowdown, meanwhile, staff, stave, retardation

4. lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behindverb

   hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

   Synonyms:
   immure, recur, incarcerate, relapse, retrogress, dally, linger, lapse, remand, regress, imprison, jug, dawdle, fall behind, fall back, put behind bars, lose, gaol, jail, resort, recede, drop off, put away, recidivate

5. imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remandverb

   lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

   "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

   Synonyms:
   throw out, toss out, discard, put to sleep, immure, jug, tuck away, jail, toss away, lock, cast away, remand, lock up, remit, shut up, send back, cast aside, put behind bars, fall back, dawdle, dispose, imprison, fall behind, put aside, shut away, cast out, chuck out, toss, throw away, gaol, fling, lock in, lock away, tuck in, put away, incarcerate

6. lagverb

   throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

   Synonyms:
   jug, imprison, dawdle, incarcerate, fall behind, fall back, put behind bars, jail, immure, put away, remand, gaol

7. lagverb

   cover with lagging to prevent heat loss

   "lag pipes"

   Synonyms:
   jug, imprison, dawdle, incarcerate, fall behind, fall back, put behind bars, jail, immure, put away, remand, gaol

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1. lagverb

   Synonyms:
   fall behind, loiter, linger, delay, saunter

How to use lag in a sentence?

1. Nick Giordano:

   We're getting what we had under the TPP and we're not going to lag behind.

2. Robert Herjavec:

   When you go through chemotherapy, you get highly fatigued, and it changes your mood and depression, you hold [ the Litebook ] to the side of your head, and it gives you radiation and light, and it helps with fatigue, and there’s actually a commercial application of it for jet lag.

3. Blerina Uruci:

   Once the tariffs start feeding through, import prices are likely to reflect them first, it will then likely feed through with a longer lag and to a smaller extent to producer prices and consumer prices.

4. Andy Lipow:

   Don't get me wrong. There would be some lag, what if I was the guy who just bought my tanker load yesterday and the next two days crude oil dropped ?

5. Miftah Ismail:

   Perceptions change with a lag. Our reality has changed, but it takes a little while for investors to realize that.

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