Перевод слова

Перевод: laggard

[прилагательное]
медлительный; вялый;
[существительное]
неповоротливый человек; увалень

Тезаурус:

1. that firms who are early adopters of new technology get a greater benefit than do laggard firms, or by contrast,
2. The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard.
3. Rumours were racing through the industry last week that Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC - and perhaps even IBM, apparently the most laggard of the trio - might indeed muster some support for Unix System Labs Inc's Destiny launch on Tuesday, June 16.
4. Its pricing severely undercuts the last known price points Intel Corp was considering for its laggard Pentium chips: 995 for the 60MHz and 1,200 for the 66MHz (UX No 429) though points of 795 and 995 respectively are also being forecast.
5. He bought the bell in a shop in Camden Passage and hung it up, intending to ring it to summon laggard children to school.
6. A laggard in the technological race may take shortcuts to "catch up".
7. Obscenity oiled his laggard tongue.
8. The crane ratchets of the later arrivals could still be heard clearly as their crews outramped, and rising bow waves could be spotted as an occasional laggard powered upstream to its proper place in the echelon.
9. Liberal Democrats are determined to ensure that Britain changes its ways so that it become a leader, not a laggard, in facing the environmental challenge.
10. The result has been that the Conservatives have been able to transform this country from the laggard of Europe in the hands of the unions with inflation well over 20pc to a lean, competitive economy with low taxes ready to take full advantage of the upturn when the recession ends.
11. The programme will have succeeded if, in 15 years' time, primary health care in the capital has lost its status as the national laggard; the quality of the services it offers matches or exceeds that enjoyed in the rest of England; and London has become a place where aspiring primary health care practitioners in all disciplines aim to work.
12. In addition, the Trade Indemnity survey pinpoints Scotland as an economic laggard with the fall in company failures between the third quarter and fourth quarters of 1992 restricted to 2 per cent.
13. The rural sociological literature of the 1960s of the diffusionist school has demonstrated to the point of overkill the problem of the laggard and the small farmer (Rogers Shoemaker 1971).