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Plural of lag

regular plural

The plural of lag is lags.

Forms of lag

Singularlag /læɡ/
Plurallags
Countablecountable and uncountable

Lags in a sentence

  • Thus, even though a total of four lags of inflation enters the right hand side, forward looking behavior still predominates.1999, Galí, Jordi and Mark Gertler, “Inflation dynamics: A structural econometric analysis”, in Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 44…. From the entry predominate
  • Wireless internet access (wi-fi) is marvellously widespread in ‘E-stonia’ (you may find yourself wondering why your own country lags so far behind this tech-savvy wizard).2009, Carolyn Bain, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 165. From the entry E-stonia
  • There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223. From the entry cinnabar

Meaning of lag

  1. adjective Late.
  2. adjective Last; long-delayed.
  3. adjective Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

Full definition of lag

Questions about the plural of lag

What is the plural of lag?
The plural of lag is lags.
Is lag countable?
Lag is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lag (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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