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• n  used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat
• v  hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
• v  lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
• v  throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
• v  cover with lagging to prevent heat loss

• Meanwhile, Starbucks, with business lagging, is fighting back with an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy, by offering heated breakfast sandwiches and adding drive-thru .
• They wore civilian clothes, their vehicles lagging behind a legitimate aid convoy.
• For the next 15 years, she shuttled between Vichy and Switzerland returning to reopen her Paris salon in 1954 only to boost lagging perfume sales.

• lag
• dawdle
• fall back
• fall behind
• imprison
• incarcerate
• immure
• put behind bars
• jail
• jug
• gaol
• put away
• remand

News & Articles

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• Capital appreciation bonds draw critics, but Dallas-area school districts say they’re necessary
  Some school districts and municipalities facing state taxing limits or lagging tax values have turned to an expensive form of borrowing that shifts the repayment burden to taxpayers years down the road.
  June 16, 2013 - Dallas Morning News
• How the HTC One Stacks Up in a Crowded Smartphone Space
  Why this beautiful phone's sales are lagging.        
  June 16, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• GM offers $5,000 discount on Chevy Volt to boost sales
  General Motors is offering a $5,000 discount on its Chevy Volt electric car in an effort to jumpstart lagging sales. The Chevy Volt discount follows the strategy of the recent reduction in price of the Nissan Leaf.
  June 14, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor

Quotes

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• Al Sharpton in FOXNews
  In a statement, Sharpton accused the Romney campaign of a "blatant effort to fabricate a controversy to help their lagging campaign" and argued that it was Hitchens who criticized Mormons.
• Frank Blake in International Herald Tribune
  ...Executive Frank Blake, noting that last year was one of the most difficult financially for Home Depot, told analysts during a conference call that the company is "still too often perceived as lagging in customer service."