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Examples of laggard
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Missouri has long been viewed as a laggard when it comes to energy conservation.
From the stltoday.com
Laggard industries such as steel and fertilizers were among the best performing.
From the investors.com
It's downright embarrassing that this state, with Silicon Valley, is a laggard.
From the sacbee.com
Laggard groups such as home builders and fertilizers were among the day's best.
From the investors.com
Until recently SkyTeam, which includes Air France, KLM and Delta, was the laggard.
From the economist.com
Even China, Asia's perennial pop-culture laggard, has hopped on the bandwagon.
From the time.com
Japan is third, with Britain and France close behind, and Italy a notable laggard.
From the economist.com
With its fossil-fuel culture, the United States is a laggard in marine energy.
From the economist.com
Kovalev, who led Montreal with 35 goals last season, has been a laggard this year.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
- Dawdler: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- Dilatory: wasting time
- (laggardly) resembling a laggard; slow; taking more time than is necessary; lagging behind; In the manner of a laggard
- (Laggards) those in a community who are slowest to adopt a new product. See Diffusion of Innovation; Early Adopters; Early Majority; Innovators; Late Majority.
- (laggards) The fifth, and last, group of users to adopt an innovation. (See adopter categories and product adoption process.)
- (Laggards) Consumers who are strongly oriented toward the past and very suspicious of new concepts; they are the last to adopt a new product.
- (Laggards) They are the last among the market segments in the social diffusion process to take up the product. They tend to resist change, are risk-averse, and cling hardest to tradition.
- (Laggards) They make up a small portion of the respondents to this survey, but we know anecdotally that often the largest buyers of technology in the Fortune 1000 and government are laggards. ...
- (Laggards) Those consumers who adopt the product/service as it reaches the end of its lifecycle. They usally pay a competitive price for the benefit of waiting.
