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From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  lag behind
     vb.
     (label en transitive or intransitive) To fail to keep pace; to fail
  to keep up with one's peers; to achieve or impress less than one's
  peers; to move more slowly than one's peers.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  lag behind
     vb.
     (label en transitive or intransitive) To fail to keep pace; to fail
  to keep up with one's peers; to achieve or impress less than one's
  peers; to move more slowly than one's peers.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  lag behind
     vb.
     (label en transitive or intransitive) To fail to keep pace; to fail
  to keep up with one's peers; to achieve or impress less than one's
  peers; to move more slowly than one's peers.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  lag behind
     vb.
     (label en transitive or intransitive) To fail to keep pace; to fail
  to keep up with one's peers; to achieve or impress less than one's
  peers; to move more slowly than one's peers.

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lag behind /lˈaɡ bɪhˈaɪnd/
  zurückbleiben, zurückliegen, hinterherhinken, nachhinken 
           Note: hinter jdm./etw.
        "lag behind in development"  - hinter der Entwicklung zurückbleiben
     Synonyms: lag, trail
  
   see: lagging, trailing, lagged, trailed, lagging regions, be behind the target
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  lag behind /lˈaɡ bɪhˈaɪnd/
  zurückliegen  [gegenüber jdm.]  [um/bei etw.]
           Note: im Wettbewerb
     Synonym: be (sth.) behind (sb.), to be (sth.) down
  
   see: be 10 points behind/down, be two-nil / two to nothing behind/down, The EU is severely lagging behind (America) in/on the number of inventions per head of the population.
  
           Note: sb.
           Note: on/in sth.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "lag behind":
     back, back up, come after, come last, dawdle, drag, fall astern,
     fall back, fall behind, follow, get behind, go back, go backwards,
     hang back, lag, linger, linger behind, loiter, regress, retrogress,
     revert, straggle, trail, trail behind
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     落后,跟不上

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