Collocations for "lag"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "lag" in context.
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lag
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- am still suffering from jet lag
- How's your jet lag?
- must have jet lag after [your, a long] flight
- still feeling the effects of (the) jet lag
- a lag of [two] seconds
- a [five] -minute lag
- a lag of [about, roughly, approximately]
- a lag in [production, productivity, output]
- a [production] lag
- [avoid, prevent, overcome] (production) lags
- a time lag between [action and reaction, the lightning flash and the thunder]
- a time lag in [getting, receiving, picking up]
- there is a lot of lag in this game
- my lag is spiking again
- Why is there so much lag?
- can't play with all of this lag
- there is too much lag to play
- have a lot of lag
- UK, informal: the old lags were [sentenced, jailed] (again)
- the lag time between
'lag' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):