0 someone or something that is very slow
1 a company, organization, etc. that does something later, or improves less quickly, than others:
2 someone who buys a product at a much later date than most people:
How could an agency so quickly transform from a leading light of public administration into a laggard?
Although owners tried to force the laggards to pay their debts, there were two factors working against them.
Significant environmental gains look to be achievable simply by moving environmental laggards toward the policy approaches of those at the top of the performance ladder.
Those who are slowest to adopt are called laggards.
The international uncontrolled leakage and spillover of technological knowledge would benefit the technological strategy of laggard countries, based upon fast imitation and re-engineering.
And, like a wartime convoy of ships, the mission is not complete until the slowest (author) arrives (produces his/her text), unless the laggards are abandoned.
This type of benchmarking can be seen as leading to a subjective perceived sense of urgency, where countries that have not adopted reforms 'learn' they are laggards.
To put it simply, the good performers are being penalised while the laggards are being rewarded.
