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How to pronounce lagger in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dawdler, drone, laggard, poke, trailer
Type of idler, layabout, do-nothing, loafer, bum
Has types putterer, slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, straggler, strayer, lingerer, loiterer, plodder, potterer
Derivation lag

Examples of lagger

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It will be a lagger, it will be way behind Europe and Japan and the other developed countries.
From the abcnews.go.com
Lagger scoffed at the notion the hospital had done anything wrong.
From the stltoday.com
She was a pre-schooler when her dad worked as a lagger.
From the scienceblogs.com
But the sector has been the big lagger in safety.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Her dad worked as a lagger for the Ministry of Defense, and her exposure to asbestos likely came from her father's work clothes.
From the scienceblogs.com
His job as a lagger meant he spent his day repairing and applying asbestos insulation around pipes and ductwork in the bowels of buildings.
From the scienceblogs.com
He was exposed to asbestos in his twenties while working briefly as a lagger, but the firm he worked for closed two decades ago and there are no insurance records.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Dawdler: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
  • Lag is a common word meaning to fail to keep up or to fall behind. In real-time applications, the term is used when the application fails to respond in a timely fashion to inputs.
  • One who installs lagging; A player who lags (has a poor or slow network connection); Support staff responsible for contacting lawyers to check how case is progressing; derived from "Legal Naggers"
  • A name given to a person with over 100 ping to that person, and especially given to a person with over 1000 (or 1k) ping. Normally lag is caused by distance between two players (i.e. American and Asian players).
  • Alternate name for a sailor.